Forum:Reorganizing rank and classification

To reiterate, I don't think we should be putting ANBU inside of the Rank property. Not from a "ANBU is an organization" perspective, but from a organization perspective, ShounenSuki already noted the databooks consider ANBU a rank, but a rank outside of the normal ranks (Though I'd like to see the actual statement, could it have actually said that ANBU is a rank within ANBU, rather than a Ninja Rank in general?)

From a good semantic organization perspective considering ANBU a rank just doesn't work out. Someone can be ANBU, but they don't have to have attained Jonin, theoretically someone could be ANBU and later become Kage, someone can also be Jonin or Kage and never have been ANBU. Thus ANBU doesn't fit within a normal hierarchy. The purpose of Rank was to define the hierarchical rank, the reason why we never listed "Genin, Chunin, Jonin" and instead just listed "Jonin" was because Jonin implied Chunin which implied Genin which also implied Academy Student. It was a hierarchy, even if you technically skipped Chunin and jumped to Jonin you could still say that person had reached Chunin rank even though they really just skipped it and went to Jonin. That doesn't work with ANBU, and as a result we get characters like Kakashi who were once ANBU but we list Jonin, and some characters where we list ANBU but never state what actual rank they once had if we knew it.

I'm thinking of redefining Rank and Classification:
 * Rank will be for the highest hierarchical rank that someone has attained as given by a village; Academy Student, Genin, Chunin, Tokubetsu Jonin, Jonin, Kage.
 * Classification will be for other specialty classifications like titles and memberships in ANBU; Sannin, S-Rank (s-rank criminals), ANBU, ANBU Captain, Per village Kage title (Hokage, ...)
 * ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 10, 2009 @ 17:01 (UTC)


 * It will avoid a bit of confusion and reverting, but I dont think ANBU fits into classification, as it is technically still a rank...I think for anbu something like Other Rank or something along those lines better suit it...And i think Hokage should also go under Rank..its better suited to Rank than it is to Classification.....Other than that, this seems like the right way to go..AlienGamer | Talk 17:40, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * If I remember correctly, there was a debate months to a year ago about if Kakashi's classification or something was ANBU, and ShounenSuki showed up with databook knowledge that it was a rank and not a classification. I can't remember for sure, but ask yourself this: Why would I have a false memory of ShounenSuki giving us information? Exactly.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 20:30, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Yep....Its in Kakashi's talk page..Talk:Kakashi Hatake..AlienGamer | Talk 20:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Ya. It's written there. It has to be a rank. As it could be seen that it is only for exetremly powerful ninja's. Also in many sites they have said ANBU is a rank. So it is most likely a rank. Cooltamerboy (talk) 11:58, 12 June 2009 (UTC).


 * That's not what's been debated, ShounenSuki already said ANBU is a rank separate from the normal rank hierarchy. What is being discussed is the organization because Rank is supposed to be hierarchical, and because we are including ANBU within rank it's destroying the ability to properly search for characters as some people who were once ANBU aren't listed as ANBU, and some who were ANBU cannot be found by the hierarchical rank they had once. Classification is a catch all term, the actual definition of classification is "one of the groups or classes into which things may be or have been classified." frankly classification could be any sort of group or rank. When setting up the semantic stuff I used classification to refer to any sort of category something could be put into that didn't fit as something else. Like the Jutsu classification which tags Nin/Tai/Gen jutsu, but also tags things that don't fit there such as Kinjutsu, Life transfer techniques, and so on. But I don't think Hokage is something we want in the hierarchical rank, Kage is the rank, Hokage is a title for someone who has become a Kage rank ninja in Konoha, it's closer to something like Sannin. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Jun 13, 2009 @ 02:59 (UTC)


 * Wouldn't it be less confusing to simply state both ranks in someone's Rank property if they were both an ANBU and a regular shinobi? If you put ANBU under classification, it would seem as if ANBU wasn't a rank and would actually leave certain people (like Zabuza, Yamato, and Sai) without a rank. --ShounenSuki (talk 11:58, 13 June 2009 (UTC)