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Especially considering the main series is over and won't be changed any longer. Sure, the main series. ;) There's no guarantee the Boruto series won't run long enough for Naruto to die. And then we'll be in a predicament under the current infobox system. The only difference between Naruto and Jiraiya at that point would be that one died during the Naruto series and the other died during the Boruto series. Which means we would either have to label Naruto as "Deceased" just like Jiraiya or decide that Boruto events don't count, even though we list information for Boruto that happens during his series in his infobox. 🤣

Seelentau wrote: Dantman wrote:

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Sounds like an infobox overhaul might be due? I agree with all you have said, there are definitely better and more consistent ways to depict the information.

At some level we'll have to accept that an infobox just summarizes information and with the goal of documenting the whole series – rather than a snapshot at a specific point in time – that information won't be able to completely reflect the details of how that information changes over the series. But we can certainly make some improvements.

I think we can probably improve how we handle some of the statuses that generally end up changing as you note, like Jinchuriki status.

Kakashi's Sharingan may be difficult, how many characters actually have a status change like that? If it's not worth the effort to make something complex perhaps just an annotation (like the "Anime only" annotations we have) to denote how the status may change during the series would work.

The line we probably draw will be at affiliations. It's probably too difficult to denote how and when affiliations (and team memberships) start and end in the infobox. And may be better off just left as a list with all the affiliations through the series and the full details in the article.