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*<s>[[Brody, Kellan]] to [[Kellan Brody]]</s> Moved. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
*<s>[[Brody, Kellan]] to [[Kellan Brody]]</s> Moved. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
*<s>[[Dash, Peter]] to [[Peter Dash]]</s> Moved. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
*<s>[[Dash, Peter]] to [[Peter Dash]]</s> Moved. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
*[[Gray, Wallace]] to [[Wallace Gray]]
*<s>[[Gray, Wallace]] to [[Wallace Gray]]</s> Moved. --[[User:Day|Day]] 05:23, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
*[[Hamilton, Sekou]] to [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[Hamilton, Sekou]] to [[Sekou Hamilton]]
*[[Keikeya, Billy]] to [[Billy Keikeya]]
*[[Keikeya, Billy]] to [[Billy Keikeya]]

Revision as of 09:23, 31 August 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 a role or profession in parenthesis, lower case, for example Mueller (pilot) vs. Mueller (president); Stinger (galactica) vs. Stinger (pegasus)

List of Character articles needing to be moved

List of duplicate Character Articles

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.

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".