adding fields for slaves, pets, etc. to the "ethnicity" article
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adding fields for slaves, pets, etc. to the "ethnicity" article
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by Logan Mountain
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ethnicity species pet slave subordinate organization farm-animal
Feature Request:
I would like to add fields under the "connections & relations" tab of the "ethnicity" article. These would be a field to add article names that would then show up in the right hand information panel when viewed. These could be either several separate fields, or a couple of aggregate fields.What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
There is currently no automated/prompted way of displaying the following within the "ethnicity" template:1. animal species kept as pets by a culture
2. animal/plant species kept as domesticated food crops or beasts of burden
3. other sentient species or groups kept as slaves
How does this feature request address the current situation?
Maybe there could be more granularity, like specifying pets from farm animals, a special field for plants instead of grouping them in, separating sentient from not sentient species, etc ... but I think the two groups above would probably include most potential options.
What are other uses for this feature request?
I'm not sure? lol ... maybe you could also include something for individuals? Maybe there would be a use for noting when specific monsters, or noteworthy individual people who are "owned" or otherwise under the power of a given culture/ethnicity.Follow up
@A Wild Bananafolk - I won't argue that slavery is perhaps an unpleasant subject, but it is also an incredibly common thing through all human history, and exists in various forms in lots modern of fantasy and sci-fi universes. That being said, I suggested the term "subordinate" rather than "slave" to be a bit more palatable, but also to create a broader umbrella term ... you could, for example, count the orcs in LOTR as slaves of Sauron, droids as slaves of humans, and the subject is even bluntly addressed with Harry Potter's house elves. Again, this is why I suggested the phrasing that I have :)
@Dimitri ... I agree that ethnicities don't have slavery ... but cultures DO, and since you insist on not adding a culture article and trying to shoe-horn ethnicity into being culture, it's really the only place to put it. And as I say in the text, slavery is only one example of the concept I'm talking about: subordinate species and subordinate groups in general, pets and slaves are only 2 examples
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by A Wild Bananafolk
on 2022-09-19 01:23.<. maybe not slaves but animal/pets info would be cool!
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by Galahad423
on 2022-09-16 02:42Would second the ethnicity affiliation idea for organizations as well
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by ddaniel
on 2022-09-15 09:38It would be nice to have an ethnicity relation thing like for organizations, where you can do the same thing (and status can describe what you wish here), but I don't think a specific field is needed for it.
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