Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979525-20160902221450/@comment-27631794-20160904081146

I agree with both of you, both that the novels are canon over the anime, and that events that occur after the anime ends should be included in character pages; this is a wiki about the series, not exclusively the anime, after all, even though there's no question that the anime is the more widely-known medium. Where novels and anime differ, information from the novels should be provided as canon and information from the anime should be provided after, because those events did still happen. I don't exactly know how this might look, but we could consider making a section at the bottom of the synopsis sections that focuses on differences between the anime and novels. For Kazutano, for example, the synopsis might say something like "Kazutano was rescued by Celty..." and later "In the anime, Kazutano was rescued by Kyohei's gang..." though Kazutano and Rio's pages already address those differences. That was just a rough example of what I was thinking. Anime events shouldn't be discarded, even when they differ from canon events.

The only issue I have with saying, for example, that Anri IS a shopkeeper and WAS a student is that is breaks the rule of Literary Present Tense. It's correct to write about fictional events as happening eternally in the present; that'd be Anri IS a shopkeeper in SH and IS a shopkeeper in the first series. This doesn't apply, for example, to when Shizuo and Izaya were high school students, because they were students before the story. Here are my sources.

Also, a little off topic but related, how do you guys feel about a "first appears in" section in the infoboxes? For each character and place, a quick reference to show in which book, chapter, and episode they first appear. I would find it useful.