Difference between revisions of "Wikisimpsons:Style Guide Crew"

The following is a style guide on how to create a high quality crew page, and is part of our Manual of Style.

Aims

This style guide aims to help you write articles on all The Simpsons crew members.

Structure of an article

Infobox

All crew articles must have this infobox:

{{Crew
|name= Name
|image= Image
|gender= Male or Female
|job= Main role(s)
|birthdate= If full date, and still alive, use <code>{{birthdate|year|month|day}}</code>
|deathdate= If full birth and death date, use <code>{{deathdate|death year|month|day|birth year|month|date}}</code>
|status=Active, Inactive or One time
|episodes=Number of episodes worked on
|other media= Number of other media worked on
|short= For one short credit only
|first short= First short
|latest short= Last short
|episode= For one episode credit only
|first episode= First episode
|latest episode= Latest episode
|movie= If worked on the movie
|game= For one game credit only
|first game= First game
|latest game= Latest game
|comic= For one comic credit only
|first comic= First comic
|latest comic= Latest comic
|book= For one book credit only
|first book= First book
|latest book= Latest book
|music= For one music video/album only
|first music= First music video
|latest music=Latest music video
}}

Please note that any unnecessary fields may be removed.

Credits

The main part of the article will be the credits section. Each credited role should have it's own section. If there are a large number of credits, then a scroll box should be used.

Navboxes and categories

Many job roles should have a navbox and this should add a category. For a list of current navboxes see Wikisimpsons:Navboxes#Cast & Crew. For a list of categories see Category:Cast and crew.

External links

All crew member should have an IMDB page, linkable through {{IMDB|link}}, where link is everything past "http:www.imdb.com/". Some may have Wikipedia pages, which is applied through {{Wikipedialink}}. Note that no extra info is needed provided Wikipedia's page share's the same title as ours. Other acceptable links include the person's website and their Twitter page.

Other

• If the article is lacking information, then add {{Crew stub}} to the end of the article.
• Every crew's talk page should have {{Talkheader}} followed by {{Article Project Crew}}.