User blog:Belle pullman/Linking Movie Character pages to the main character pages?

The way the movie character pages work, there's an automatic link back to the main character page at the top of the article. But we need to manually include a link to the movie page - for example, if someone lands on the "Bombalurina" page, there's only the credit to Taylor Swift in the infobox, nothing links to the movie version.

So, what's the best way to add this information?


 * We could do a disambig link at the top of the page like the Tugger pages have - but I'm inclined not to, as that suggests that the pages are equally important.  (I'm not keen on the Tugger pages either, I think the Street Cat can be resigned to a footnote now he's not in use anymore.  That was coded when it seemed like the character was sticking around for the future.)
 * We could add a line into the Infobox - but that's quite dodgy coding in this version of the software, it might involve re-writing every character's infobox entirely. Which is a hassle, but do-able.  This might solve the Tugger issue too, as it could be "alternate versions of this character" links.
 * Each character page already has a "Role" section - a link to the movie character page with "To read about the 2019 Movie version of the character, see here" would work. But it would be fairly buried in the prose.  Maybe we need to do this plus another option...
 * We could add the link in the introduction paragraph, like the Disambig link but in the prose. This puts a very high status to the Movie character page - which temporarily might be good, but once the film has been out a few months, will seem excessive.  We could do it for now and then change it again in 6 months?
 * Any better suggestions?

--Belle pullman (talk) 11:34, December 10, 2019 (UTC)