Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-38502514-20190216075013/@comment-34115-20190217134843

There was never any consistency in the first place, you can only see consistency if you cherry pick fields. Age/height/weight all record information that change over time by segmenting that information into parts of the series. Occupation seems to record the latest occupation since Naruto's infobox lists him as "Hokage" which he did not have at the start of the series. And team and affiliation both record just list everything from the entire series as a list, bundling together affiliations whether they are active the whole series, they end naturally at some point, or the character later becomes an enemy to that affiliation. The only reason gender never had a various or ability to specify multiple sexes/genders is because Orochimaru is just about the only character in the series that info is not static for.

I couldn't think of a good way to depict a character's deceased status in a way that reflected the whole series before. But I think one just came to mind now.

Instead of thinking about a character's deceased state as as "status" that changes, perhaps we should think about it as an event. Instead of recording whether a character is alive or deceased; we should record when they die (and pretty much every character alive at the end of the series will inevitably still die sometime after it). A character that is "Alive" is really a character that dies post-series. A character that starts "Deceased" is a character that died pre-series. And a character whose status "changes" is a character who has a chronological "death" event during the timeline of the series for which we can record "when" they die with episode/chapter numbers. For spoiler sake we can simplify this to "Pre-series", "Post-series", and "During-series" and hide the exact chapter/episode behind a spoiler flag. Or perhaps "Died: Before start of timeline", "Died: After start of timeline", "Died: Part I"/"Died: Part II"/...

There are probably similar better ways to represent information for other statuses. For Jinchuriki instead of recording it as a status of whether or not a person is a Jinchuriki, but if they are a Jinchuriki recording it as when they started being one and when they stopped being one.