Template:Character Data

Documentation

This template is used to place character info on a Battlestar Wiki article. It provides lower case parameters only.

Usage

{{Character Data
 | title=
 | photo=
 | photo 2=
 | caption=
 | caption 2=
 | age=
 | colony=
 | birthplace=
 | birthname=
 | birthdate=
 | callsign=
 | nickname=
 | seen=
 | pseen=
 | death=
 | parents=
 | siblings=
 | children=
 | marital status=
 | familytree=
 | role=
 | rank=
 | serial=
 | actor=
 | cylon=
 | 5cylon=
 | hcylon=
 | mcylon=
 | sepcon=
 | primecon=
 | series=
 | name=
 | sortkey=
}}

Optional parameters

• title: If different from the article name.
• photo: The filename of the photo.
• photo 2: The file name for a second photo, which goes on the bottom of the infobox.
• caption: The caption of the first photo.
• caption 2: The caption of the second photo.
• age: The approximate age of the character.
• colony: The character's home colony.
• birthplace: If the character was not born on one of The Twelve Colonies, then use this parameter instead of "colony".
• birthname: The full birthname of the character.
• birthdate: The date of birth. Approximate. Link to a Timeline page if needed.
• callsign: The character's "callsign" if he or she is a pilot.
• nickname: The character's "nickname" if applicable.
• seen: The episode in which the character first appears. Do not wikify.
• pseen: If the episode name is different than the article name, this is what will displayed. Do not wikify.
• death: When, Where, and How they died. Please wikify the episode.
• parents: Who are their parents.
• siblings: Who is related to them.
• children: How many children does this character have.
• marital status: What's their current marital status.
• familytree: Set this to Y if they have a family tree. The section in the article should be Family tree.
• role: Current job or position.
• rank: Current rank if in the military.
• serial: Serial number, if in the military.
• actor: Actor/actress who plays this character. Please wikify.
• name: If the character is a Cylon, this is their human name. For example, "Sharon Valerii" for Number Eight.
• sortkey: This tells the category system where this entry should go. (For William Adama, the sortkey would be "Adama, William"—without quotes—thus telling the software to alphabetize by his last name.)

RDM

• cylon: Insert Y to indicate that this character is a Cylon.
• 5cylon: Insert Y to indicate that this character is a member of the Final Five.
• hcylon: Insert Y to indicate that this character is a Cylon Hybrid.

TOS

• mcylon: Insert Y to indicate that this character is a Cylon.

Separate Continuity

• sepcon: Insert Y to indicate that a separate continuity article is available on the subject.
• sepcon title: The name of the article on the subject in the separate continuity. Do not encase in any link syntax.
  • Note: Anything encased in parentheses will be "piped," thus anything including or after the "(" will be ignored when outputting a name, just like an automatically piped link. Example: Vella (TOS alternate reality) will only print Vella. It will not affect the actual link itself, only the printed output in the template.
• series: Insert the series acronym that the separate continuity is a part of. Values are TOS, 1980, and RDM.

Note: This is only for articles where the name crosses more than one continuity. For instance, "Boxey" is both a character in the Original Series as well as the Re-imagined Series. So an article on Boxey in the separate continuity material for the Original Series would use the "TOS" acronym, and thus would facilitate a link to Boxey (TOS alternate).

Primary Continuity

This is meant for articles on separate continuity characters, i.e. Daniel Novacek.

• primecon: Insert Y to indicate that a primary continuity article is available on the subject.
• primecon title: The name of the article on the subject in the primary continuity. Do not encase in any link syntax.
  • Note: Anything encased in parentheses will be "piped," thus anything including or after the "(" will be ignored when outputting a name, just like an automatically piped link. Example: Adama (TOS) will only print Adama. It will not affect the actual link itself, only the printed output in the template.
• series: Insert the series acronym that the primary continuity is a part of. Values are TOS, 1980, and RDM.

Note: This is only for articles where the name crosses more than one continuity. For instance, "Boxey" is both a character in the Original Series as well as the Re-imagined Series. So an article on Boxey in the primary continuity material for the Original Series would use the "TOS" acronym, and thus would facilitate a link to Boxey (TOS).

No description.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
title	title	no description	Unknown	optional
photo	photo	no description	File	optional
caption	caption	no description	Unknown	optional
name	name	no description	Unknown	optional
cylon	cylon	no description	Unknown	optional
age	age	no description	Unknown	optional
colony	colony	no description	Unknown	optional
birthplace	birthplace	no description	Unknown	optional
birthname	birthname	no description	Unknown	optional
birthdate	birthdate	no description	Unknown	optional
callsign	callsign	no description	Unknown	optional
nickname	nickname	no description	Unknown	optional
seen	seen	no description	Unknown	optional
seenref	seenref	no description	Unknown	optional
pseen	pseen	no description	Unknown	optional
death	death	no description	Unknown	optional
parents	parents	no description	Unknown	optional
siblings	siblings	no description	Unknown	optional
children	children	no description	Unknown	optional
marital status	marital status	no description	Unknown	optional
familytree	familytree	no description	Unknown	optional
role	role	no description	Unknown	optional
rank	rank	no description	Unknown	optional
serial	serial	no description	Unknown	optional
actor	actor	no description	Unknown	optional
5cylon	5cylon	no description	Unknown	optional
hcylon	hcylon	no description	Unknown	optional
mcylon	mcylon	no description	Unknown	optional
archives	archives	no description	Unknown	optional
media	media	no description	Unknown	optional
sepcon	sepcon	no description	Unknown	optional
primecon	primecon	no description	Unknown	optional
sepcon title	sepcon title	no description	Unknown	optional
series	series	no description	Unknown	optional
primecon title	primecon title	no description	Unknown	optional
photo 2	photo 2	no description	File	optional
caption 2	caption 2	no description	Unknown	optional
sortkey	sortkey	no description	Unknown	optional

Re-imagined Series definition: a nickname used as a substitute for an aviator's given name in wireless communications and in conversation