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Smiley12 is the leader of this project. Please direct any questions about Style Guide Characters or its actions to this user.

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Some WikiSimpson members have formed a project to better organize efforts to write and improve articles about characters. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page, or sign up below.

Project Characters

Aims

Project Characters aims to write articles on all one time and recurring characters of the Simpsons cartoon.

How you can help

You can help by opening the Character Guide and selecting any character that is a stub (or not a stub) and expand it using your general knowledge or from other facts and figures. Some of the existing character articles need to be modified to comply with the project standard (see below). You can check Category:Character stubs to see which articles need expanding.

Some articles need pictures. Help them by adding a picture of the character by uploading a new one. If you see an article without the infobox template, add one immediately.

Participants

To join the project, simply add your name to the bottom of the list.

Smiley12- Founder and Project Leader
Sgtcook - WikiSimpsons Admin
Kingcjc - Admin, I'll try when I'm not editing LEGO.
Combee123
Solar Dragon

Goal of the Month

Some of you may have seen the page of One-Time Characters. Some of you may also have seen that the page is only updated to season 19. The Goal of the Month is to update the page to season 21. Every character on that page should also have their own article.

Stub of the Month

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Dan Horde
Dan Horde is a sport announcer, voiced by Ken Levine, in the episode "Dancin' Homer"

Structure of an article

Character infobox

Example

Example

Character Information

Gender:	Example
Status:	Unknown
Age:	Example
Hair:	Example
Occupation:	Example
Relatives:	Parents: Example
First appearance:	Example
Voiced by:	Example

At the start of each character article should be the character infobox with a picture of the character, their gender, hair, age, job, relatives, episode they first appeared in, and their voice actor(s) (see right).

The Article Itself

The article should be written in Simpsons universe view, without mentioning episode names in the text. Episodes should be referenced with the <ref>[[Episode Name]]</ref> and have:

=== References ===
<references/>

At the bottom of the article.

Appearances

For a very minor character, a list would be fine, for a recurring character, the following is used. A list of every Ulmann Short, Episode, Game, comic, and Movie this character appeared in. e.g.

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Simpsons short – "Good Night"

Simpsons short – "Watching Television"

Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Episode – "Bart the Genius"
Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror"
– The Simpsons Movie
Comic story – The Amazing Colossal Homer
Video game – The Simpsons: Hit and Run
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End Templates

Below is a list of the templates which can be added at the end of the page. Each page should have {{Simpsons characters}} There are also a number of optional templates that can be added.

What to type	Used if
`{{Simpson Family Relatives}}`	Character part of the Simpson family.
`{{Mafia Members}}`	Character is or was part of the Springfield Mafia
`{{Series Superheroes}}`	Page is about a superhero
`{{THOH characters}}`	Characters who only appear in Treehouse of Horror episodes
`{{SNPP Employees}}`	Characters working in the Sprinfield Nuclear Power Plant
`{{Krusty the Clown Show}}`	Characters working on the Krusty the Clown Show
`{{Springfield Police Force Members}}`	Characters on the Springfield Police Force

Other templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
`{{Article Project Characters}}`	Template:Article Project Characters	To be put on the talk page, informs that the page is part of Project Characters.
`{{Character stub}}`	Template:Character Stubs	To be put on character pages that are a paragraph or less.
`{{User Project Characters}}`	Template:User Project Characters	Tells other users that you are a member of Project Characters when put on Userpage.

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