Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27666888-20160922114535/@comment-454133-20160922144427

TL;DR: Maybe replace the flavor text with a background page that lists where the ship/character is from and how to learn more about them.

I've been kind of ambivalent, as long as the text isn't too long, but I'm starting to be against it. The flavor text is sometimes nice if I'm interested in a character and want to know a bit more, but the text we have often doesn't help with that.

Perhaps more useful would be a link to the character's wiki page so a visitor can read up on them. I would be interested, for example, in learning more about Sabine Wren, Kanan Jarrus, Jan Ors, Hera Syndulla, or Mara Jade, because I use their ships or crew really often and I think they're awesome (particularly when I get to see how they look because the crew card shows a face I can connect with the ability). But I don't know the best place to go look them up, learn about where they enter the Star Wars mythos, etc.

Proposition:

If we replaced the flavor text with a Background section that listed books, movies, etc that include the character/ship/weapon/etc (particularly when they were introduced, or best known), and/or linked to a wiki entry on them (on a different wiki that does such things already), that might be both easier to maintain and more useful to visitors like myself.