Is this page really necessary? Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 17:03, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- We provide a page for every credited character, unless the entire community says otherwise. If we don't do that, then we have to come up with some other standard for which characters get a page. That may be a good subject for a policy document. We can see what opinions other have.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 17:13, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- OK, I guess random character pages will do until it gets out of hand. I remember the LOST wiki got way out of control that way a few seasons back. This should at least be renamed as Man at the microphone, as Mike should neither be abbreviated, nor capitalized unless it is a proper name. Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 20:51, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- You may have a point there. "Man at the Mike" was the credit at the end of the episode. To make it even weirder, another character was credited as "Woman at the Mic!" Consistency is apparently NOT a virtue.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 20:59, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe categorized as "Insignificant Characters" or somesuch?- Bryan 23:10, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Checking Lostpedia, they just use Characters for everything and have subcats. Lostpedia's character page. I use that as an example because I was involved in the early organization efforts at about the same stage the this wiki is at now. That one has turned out pretty good. Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 23:30, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm thinking that very minor/insignificant characters, such as Man at the Mike, shouldn't be documented. It really just depends on how important the character is. –alistic 00:45, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
- Checking Lostpedia, they just use Characters for everything and have subcats. Lostpedia's character page. I use that as an example because I was involved in the early organization efforts at about the same stage the this wiki is at now. That one has turned out pretty good. Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 23:30, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Maybe categorized as "Insignificant Characters" or somesuch?- Bryan 23:10, March 5, 2010 (UTC)
- Proposed Rule: "A character who appears in only one episode and who does not engage in a conversation will be shown in the credits, but neither the character nor the actor will have links or a page." This would wipe out "Man at the Mike," "Woman at the Mic," "Angry Crowd No 1" and "Angry Crowd No 2;" "Natalie Stark" would remain. We need to develop a documentation policy page, imo.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 01:24, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
Aye! That way, if they are in the credits, then show up later as a regular player, they can be easily added. Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 03:46, March 6, 2010 (UTC)Another idea - dump all the minor characters on a single reference page that gets redirected to. That way they remain linked and active and their actor page can be retained. Googuse (talk) (Contribs) 04:00, March 6, 2010 (UTC)I tried that on another wiki. Apparently the software only liked one {{DEFAULTSORT:}} per page; it complained when I sorted character A, then tried to sort character B.--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 13:22, March 6, 2010 (UTC)
Moved to Ideas--Jim in Georgia Contribs Talk 14:16, March 6, 2010 (UTC)