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I've taken some liberties over the weekend. This news won't require a frontpage post since I didn't so much add new content as clarify and correct existing content.
I've always been a bit dissatisfied with the site's Complete Timeline of the Compilation page -- mostly because it isn't a direct translation of a section in any of the Ultimanias. It's pretty much a TLS original, combining information primarily from the FFVII Series Timeline in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania, the personal timelines found in the character profiles from the same book, and then the timeline page in the Crisis Core Ultimania.
There was also a lot of editorializing and additional information thrown in, and while it was -- for the most part -- accurate information, I've always been of the opinion that we should try to recreate pages more or less as they are in the Ultimanias. Just in English. So an ongoing thorn in my side, one that has caused confusion for new members and in debates, has been that we've never had direct translations of the timeline pages found in either the 10th Anniversary Ultimania or the Crisis Core Ultimania.
Until now, of course.
I went ahead and made them, translating them from scratch to weed out the editorializing that found its way into much of the Complete Timeline of the Compilation page:
- Final Fantasy VII Series Timeline (from pg. 30 of the 10th Anniversary Ultimania)
- Crisis Core Ultimania Timeline (from pg. 547 of the CC Ultimania)
Now, don't get me wrong. The Complete Timeline page is an awesome thing to have on the site, and we should be proud to host it. It will obviously remain, and on our Guide Book Translations page, I have parenthetical notations beside of both of the links to these new articles pointing out that the information on those pages was used in the construction of TheLifestream's Complete Timeline page.
The Complete Timeline article should also remain the first link under "Highlights" on the homepage. We just needed these "less informative" pages for the sake of clarity, comprehensiveness, and -- in my own opinion -- accuracy.
I also took the liberty of removing from the Complete Timeline page the unsourced claim that Weiss was born approximately 20 years before the original game, and then removed from the Guide Book Translations page the erroneous claim that the timelines in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania and CC Ultimania are the same. They are drastically different. They overlap a lot, often with the same wording when they do, but both pages have information that the other does not.
That's pretty much it. If any of what I've said above is unclear, let me know and I will clarify.
I've always been a bit dissatisfied with the site's Complete Timeline of the Compilation page -- mostly because it isn't a direct translation of a section in any of the Ultimanias. It's pretty much a TLS original, combining information primarily from the FFVII Series Timeline in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania, the personal timelines found in the character profiles from the same book, and then the timeline page in the Crisis Core Ultimania.
There was also a lot of editorializing and additional information thrown in, and while it was -- for the most part -- accurate information, I've always been of the opinion that we should try to recreate pages more or less as they are in the Ultimanias. Just in English. So an ongoing thorn in my side, one that has caused confusion for new members and in debates, has been that we've never had direct translations of the timeline pages found in either the 10th Anniversary Ultimania or the Crisis Core Ultimania.
Until now, of course.
I went ahead and made them, translating them from scratch to weed out the editorializing that found its way into much of the Complete Timeline of the Compilation page:
- Final Fantasy VII Series Timeline (from pg. 30 of the 10th Anniversary Ultimania)
- Crisis Core Ultimania Timeline (from pg. 547 of the CC Ultimania)
Now, don't get me wrong. The Complete Timeline page is an awesome thing to have on the site, and we should be proud to host it. It will obviously remain, and on our Guide Book Translations page, I have parenthetical notations beside of both of the links to these new articles pointing out that the information on those pages was used in the construction of TheLifestream's Complete Timeline page.
The Complete Timeline article should also remain the first link under "Highlights" on the homepage. We just needed these "less informative" pages for the sake of clarity, comprehensiveness, and -- in my own opinion -- accuracy.
I also took the liberty of removing from the Complete Timeline page the unsourced claim that Weiss was born approximately 20 years before the original game, and then removed from the Guide Book Translations page the erroneous claim that the timelines in the 10th Anniversary Ultimania and CC Ultimania are the same. They are drastically different. They overlap a lot, often with the same wording when they do, but both pages have information that the other does not.
That's pretty much it. If any of what I've said above is unclear, let me know and I will clarify.