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]

For reasons of consistency and style, ensure that links from other articles also point to the new namespace.

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).
- I made Brendan Constanza a redirect to Constanza, in case someone types in (or comes from a site linking to) that namespace. -- Joe Beaudoin 13:16, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~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~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 12:28, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Keikeya, Billy to Billy Keikeya~~ Moved. Spencerian 12:16, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Kohn, Playa to Playa Kohn~~ Redirect to Playa Palacios. --Peter Farago 12:29, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Lai, Raymond to Raymond Lai~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 18:12, 30 August 2005 (EDT)
~~Palacios, Playa to Playa Palacios~~ Moved. --Peter Farago 12:24, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
~~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~~ No merge needed. --Peter Farago 12:24, 31 August 2005 (EDT)

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]

Marshall Bagott
Boxey (RDM)
Kellan Brody
Nelena Cain
Cally
Crashdown
Davis
Eick
Flyboy
Gina
Wallace Gray
Shelly Godfrey
Hadrian
Hamilton, Sekou
Kelly
James Macmanus
Meier
Number Six
Palacios, Playa
Sarah Porter
~~Racetrack~~ --Updated. Spencerian 18:25, 31 August 2005 (EDT)
Safiya Sanne
Simon
Jackson Spencer
Sue-Shaun
Tarn
Thorne
Valance
Venner

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". See below for list of applicable categories.

List of Applicable Categories[edit]

Applicable for All Character Pages[edit]

Applicable for TOS Character Pages[edit]

Applicable for RDM Character Pages[edit]

Layout[edit]

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.).