Battlestar Wiki:Characters

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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 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).

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

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

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 should be devided up into smaller headings by chronology as applicable or, in the case of Humano-Cylons, by role. Further sections should follow under other headings (e.g. Notes, Speculation, See Also, etc.).

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