The inspiration behind this overhaul was my desire to make the most worthlessly in-depth pages imaginable, inspired by the LOST wiki Lostpedia which usually has epicly long articles about incredibly minor characters.
Anyway, as such, there are now things that I feel must be applied to all fictional characters who receive an article. This is less of a plea for help (although help would be appreciated) and more of a "HOW TO" thread.
Here is an example of how to do the Infoboxes featured on pages (the little bits on the right where it offers facts):
For characters from The Office copy and paste the following at the start of a page and insert the appropriate data:
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{{Infobox Office Character-1|
Title=INSERT THEIR NAME HERE <br/><small>''a.k.a. "INSERT NICKNAME IF APPLICABLE IF NOT REMOVE EVERYTHING FROM <br /> UNTIL AFTER THE </small> TO YOUR RIGHT"''</small>|
Image=[[Image:UPLOAD AND INSERT NAME OF IMAGE FILE FOR CHARACTER'S PROFILE]]|
Name=ONCE AGAIN INSERT THEIR NAME HERE|
Job=INSERT THEIR JOB ROLE HERE|
FirstEp=[[INSERT THE NAME OF THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE OFFICE THEY APPEARED IN]]|
LastEp=[[INSERT THE NAME OF THE LAST EPISODE OF THE OFFICE THEY APPEARED IN]]|
Epcount=INSERT A NUMERICAL VALUE CORRESPONDING TO HOW MANY EPISODES THEY APPEARED IN|
Actor=[[INSERT NAME OF ACTOR WHO PORTRAYED THE CHARACTER]]|
}}
If you're starting, or improving a page for a character from Extras (which are sincerely needed), you can copy that Infobox but at the start where it says
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{{Infobox Office Character-1|
change it to
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{{Infobox Extras Character-1|
I'm still trying to iron the creases out of Infoboxes for characters from other media (I was thinking like pages for like Bertrum Pinkus from the ghost one and whatever he was called in Liar Liar 2), but feel free to make a page for such a thing if you desire. Don't worry if there's no Infobox straight away, I'll get around to sorting something out.
As for the pages themselves, I intend all characters to have detailed pages with an absolutely needless breakdown of what they did on the shows, much like how I have done for these characters:
Jeff
Oggy
Stephen Merchant
Don't feel under pressure to offer synopsii as detailed as I have, any contributions are welcome. Although I'm trying to bring in a referencing system, also inspired by Lostpedia, where we cite where such information comes from. To do this, it is simple, after a fact from or a summary of events from an episode do the following:
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<small>([[INSERT EPISODE NAME HERE]])</small>
I'm currently working on secondary characters from The Office, if anyone wants to take up the big 4 characters you can. Or if you're wanting to start some Extras characters that would be helpful. If you're a bit intimidated, start small like I have. A good suggestion for a first character page to make would be a page for the Journalist that Karl played in the Extras christmas special.
Lastly, I'm also trying to bring in more Trivia sections on character pages. These are good for little facts you maybe missed, stuff about the backstage origin of the character, production notes, characters based on previous material... stuff like that. The sort of stuff you can read on a rainy day to entertain yourself. Like if I use the example again, if you make a page for Karl's character in Extras, you could point out how "head like an orange" is a reference to the podcasts and maybe include some production stuff revealed in the short film Karl made about being an extra. Just, y'know, anything interesting.
Nobody is going to read this or help.
