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Where no name is available, a callsign is acceptable (e.g. [[Crashdown]]) or a brief statement of occupation (e.g. [[Armistice Officer]]).
Where no name is available, a callsign is acceptable (e.g. [[Crashdown]]) or a brief statement of occupation (e.g. [[Armistice Officer]]).


Where necessary, disambiguate with a role or profession in parenthesis, lower case, for example [[Mueller (pilot)]] vs. [[Mueller (president)]]; Stinger (galactica) vs. Stinger (pegasus). Alternatively, characters can be disambiguated by a notation of the series they are from, for example [[Adar (TOS)]] vs. [[Adar (RDM)]]; [[Boxey (TOS)]] vs. [[Boxey (RDM)]].
Where necessary, disambiguate with the following (in order of preference):
*Middle name or initial
*Callsign, for example [["Jolly" Anders]] vs. [[Samuel Anders]]
*A role or profession in parenthesis, lower case, for example [[Mueller (pilot)]] vs. [[Mueller (president)]]; Stinger (galactica) vs. Stinger (pegasus).
*Series, for example [[Adar (TOS)]] vs. [[Adar (RDM)]]; [[Boxey (TOS)]] vs. [[Boxey (RDM)]].


===List of Character articles needing to be moved===
===List of Character articles needing to be moved===

Revision as of 06:16, 2 September 2005

The various character bio pages need to be given a unified format. A proposal follows. Feel free to discuss it on the talk page.

Naming Conventions

All character bio pages should be named in the format "First Last", without middle names, initials or callsigns. Redirects should be made from all possible forms. Thus, the article for "Helo" will be at "Karl Agathon" with the following redirects:

  • Helo
  • Karl C. Agathon
  • Agathon, Karl
  • Agathon, Karl C.

Where no name is available, a callsign is acceptable (e.g. Crashdown) or a brief statement of occupation (e.g. Armistice Officer).

Where necessary, disambiguate with the following (in order of preference):

List of Character articles needing to be moved

For reasons of consistency and style, ensure that links from other articles also point to the new namespace.

List of duplicate Character Articles

List of Character Articles to be Merged

List of Characters with Non-Canon First Names

n.b. Just cataloging, not sure what to do about these yet. --Peter Farago 01:14, 1 September 2005 (EDT)

Templates

Use the Template:Character Data template where possible, along with a photograph. Size photographs to 200px horziontal in template, e.g. 

{{Character Data| 
|photo= [[Image:Character.jpg|200px]]

If there isn't sufficient information to fill at least a few fields of the character template, just take note of the remaining details in the text and use a thumbnail image. This is largely a judgement call.

List of Characters not using the Template

List of Characters wanting pictures

How to read this list: Names struck through mean the pictures have been added to their article. Under the name, place which pictures you think would be good to add and, if you can, mention the episode it would best come from. Picture descriptions struck through mean they've been created, but not uploaded or added. Articles on this list don't have to need pictures; inclusion for simple beautification is fine.

Categories

To get character names to show up in the order Last, First on category pages (which is the desirable sorting order) use a pipelink after the category tag as follows: 

[[Category: A to Z|Cain, Nelena]] [[Category: Characters|Cain, Nelena]] [[Category: RDM|Cain, Nelena]]

Additionally, all Character pages should, of course, include the categories "A to Z" and "Characters". See below for list of applicable categories.

List of Applicable Categories

Applicable for All Character Pages

Applicable for TOS Character Pages

Applicable for RDM Character Pages

Layout

All Character articles should include a short introductary paragraph describing the character. General personality description should go here and mirroring information from the Character Data Template is okay.

For articles with more than just this introductary information, this paragraph should be imediately followed by the first heading: Biographical Notes. This section can be devided up into smaller headings by chronology as applicable.

For articles on Humano-Cylons, use top-level divisions to note distinct copies/versions/instances. Use proper names where available (as in the Number Six article), or a short description where not (as in Aaron Doral). Where necessary, notes, analysis, etc. can be provided on a per-copy basis under subheadings as in regular character pages, and for the model as a whole in first-level headings beneath the sections on particular copies.

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