Battlestar Wiki:Characters

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[edit]

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[edit]

Agathon, Karl C. to Karl Agathon
~~Samuel T. Anders to Samuel Anders~~ Moved. --Day 04:18, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
Baltar, Gaius to Gaius Baltar
~~Boxey (2003) to Boxey (RDM)~~ Moved. --Day 08:39, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Brody, Kellan to Kellan Brody~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
?Constanza to Brendan Constanza (Uncertain. "Brendan" comes from IMDB, not on-screen dialog).
~~Dash, Peter to Peter Dash~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Gray, Wallace to Wallace Gray~~ Moved. --Day 05:23, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
Hamilton, Sekou to Sekou Hamilton
~~Keikeya, Billy to Billy Keikeya~~ Moved. Spencerian 12:16, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
Kohn, Playa to Playa Kohn
~~Lai, Raymond to Raymond Lai~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
Palacios, Playa to Playa Palacios
~~Saunders, Dwight to Dwight Saunders~~ Moved. --Day 05:27, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Spencer, Jackson to Jackson Spencer~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 20:50, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Thrace, Kara to Kara Thrace~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 20:50, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Tigh, Saul to Saul Tigh~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 20:50, 30 August 2005 (EDT)

List of duplicate Character Articles[edit]

~~Sanne, Safiya (duplicates Safiya Sanne)~~ Merged --Peter Farago 17:55, 30 August 2005 (EDT)

List of Character Articles to be Merged[edit]

Kohn, Playa and Palacios, Playa to be merged into new article Playa Palacios

Templates[edit]

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[edit]

Categories[edit]

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".