Forum:Relationships sections

I recently did some rearranging of the "Relationships" section of the Harry Potter article, but it occurred to be that we seem to have no guidelines about how those sections should be ordered. In most articles, it probably isn't relevant, but some articles have very long "Relationships" sections and the order of them is often arbitrary. My suggestion would be that we only have rough guidelines, rather than very strict ones, along chronological lines, though how close the relationship is would also be taken into consideration. For instance, technically Harry met Dumbledore before he met the Dursleys, but that was when he was an infant; it would be years before they would become close, during which he was raised by the Dursleys. Harry also interacted with Professor McGonagall earlier than he did with Ginny Weasley, but I would still think his relationship with Ginny should be higher in the order based on its overall greater importance.

For example, with the Hermione Granger article, I would suggest the following order:
 * Parents (family relationships would probably go first in most articles)
 * Harry Potter
 * Ron Weasley
 * Neville Longbottom (technically, Hermione becomes friendly with Neville before Harry and Ron, but she is clearly closer to the latter two)
 * Draco Malfoy (they don't really interact until Chamber of Secrets)
 * Ginny Weasley (they don't really interact until Prisoner of Azkaban-Goblet of Fire)
 * Viktor Krum
 * Luna Lovegood
 * Cormac McLaggen
 * Weasley family (fairly minimal but consistent interaction)
 * Minerva McGonagall (fairly minimal but consistent interaction)
 * Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil (fairly minimal but consistent interaction)

Any thoughts? O r e a d (talk) 04:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)