Talk:List of villagers

New table concerns
We need to verify all the villagers are listed. There are 457 pages in Category:Villagers, so we need to make sure everyone is accounted for. It should also be noted, however, that a certain other wiki notes that there are currently 460 villagers, which means we may have a few villager pages that have not been added to our villagers category (or their count is off). If anyone has any ideas on how to verify the count, do tell... or just go ahead and count them. :P

Next, we need to figure out whether we want to keep the other list pages. I personally think they aren't of much use as you can sort the master list by game if you need to. It may be beneficial to have a list of islanders, a list of special visitors/NPCs, a list of birthdays, and a list of NPC names in foreign languages, which we could link to at the top instead of the lists by game.  ( talk )  17:04, July 15, 2015 (EDT)


 * Exactly 460 villagers? It could be just rounded-up. To verify the count, we don't have to actually count. Just chunk it; check the corresponding bird pages, smug pages, birthday pages, and so on, and just compare and see who's missing. We really don't need a "list of villagers by game" though, since it's redundant with this list. What's not already listed there can be put into other lists. Finally, one more thing, I'd prefer if we elaborate on the tree icons. Perhaps we can place the game initials in each appearance cell so users don't have to constantly scroll up and down to find which column corresponds to which game, so it would be nice to instantly tell what column is which the further you scroll down. 22:55, July 15, 2015 (EDT)


 * Well if we compare the master list to smaller lists, we're still making the assumption that those smaller lists are all correct. Then again, it's unlikely that the villager in question would be missing from BOTH lists... or maybe it is likely? I'll check them anyway and let you know. >.> I'll go ahead and blank/redirect the 'List of villagers in [game]' pages later today then. I'll probably save some of the data though since it will contain info like birthdays and debut titles for villagers... stuff we might put in another table. I definitely agree with you on the tree icon business! I'll think on it and see what I can come up with. I want to try and keep the simplicity of the icons with some sort of subtle indication of the game in each cell. Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk )  00:05, July 16, 2015 (EDT)


 * As for the tree icon thing, I was thinking about inserting game initials rather than icons and giving them a color (green denoting villager, orange denoting islander, and gray denoting absence) although I don't know how well that would work out, especially when it comes to reordering the lists by clicking on the black up/down arrows and all. But since you do want those icons, I suppose adding the game initials near them could also work. 15:51, July 16, 2015 (EDT)


 * Alright, I've updated Template:Ya and Template:Ia to allow for the addition of game notes in the lower right hand corner. You can see what this would look like on the list of islanders table I've already updated. What do you think? Should the grey cells also have a game abbreviation? Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk )  21:30, July 22, 2015 (EDT)
 * Latey late, but I do like it with the initials more. It's much easier to tell which column is which now, although not a necessary change, would centering the initials look better? 21:38, August 11, 2015 (EDT)

Villager count confirmation
I took the time to create a master villager list compiled from Liquefy's gamefaqs guides and confirmed that there are 456 villagers total in the series so far. I have removed the two remaining erroneous entries in Category:Villagers (cranky and villagers) so that the category only includes villagers, and corrected the villager total on this page.  ( talk )  18:53, August 10, 2015 (EDT)
 * So I was correct that the "460" figure is rounded up or likely a fault in recalling information (I think we're better at remembering round numbers). All right, good job! 21:40, August 11, 2015 (EDT)