Some Wikisimpsons 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 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. If you are unsure on how to do this, ask an admin for assistance.

Article that Needs Work

Some articles need a lot of work put into them. Every couple of months we will have an article that needs lots of work. This months is:

Needed Characters

Articles for these characters have yet to be created:

• The OmniTouch representative from "Make Room for Lisa"
• The Southern Gentleman from "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"
• Dr. Stacey Swanson
• Joey, Fat Tony's third henchman (with the face scar) from "Bart the Murderer"
• Nick Callahan from "Realty Bites"
• Justice of the peace, the man who officiated Homer and Marge's marriage in "I Married Marge"
• Antoine O'Hara. This article now links to The Rich Texan for some reason, but it shouldn't. O'Hara is the character from "Dancin' Homer".
• The Mathemagician from "Grade School Confidential"
• The Commandant from "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
• The Commandant from "We're on the Road to D'oh-where"
• All red links in the Simpsons World factfiles template.

If you notice a character has no article yet, if it's easier, just create the article yourself. If it is a number of characters, add them here so the community can help out.

Message to all Project Members

Status parameter

With the new design for infoboxes, a new parameter has been added, the "status" parameter. Most character pages have "unknown" as status. You can help by adding |status=Alive if the character is alive or |status=Deceased if the character is dead, to all infoboxes in character articles.

Structure of an article

Character infobox

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. Episode names are only allowed in the infobox, trivia, appearances, and references. If you come across an article about a character that is not written In Simpsons Universe view, then you cn help by fixing it, or by adding {{In-universe}} to the top of the article to make

This page needs to be put into In-Universe style. All episode names must be made into references using <ref>"[[Episode Name]]"</ref> with {{Reflist}} at the bottom under a heading references.

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.

* Simpsons short – "Good Night" Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror" – The Simpsons Movie Comic story – The Amazing Colossal Homer Video game – The Simpsons: Hit and Run Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album Commercial – "Hard Times"

Navigational 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.

Categories

Each character should be put into the appropriate categories.

• Category:Characters - For all characters
• Category:Simpson family - Should be automatically added when {{Simpsons Family Relatives}} is on the page.
• Category:Male characters - Should be added to male character pages
• Category:Female characters - Should be added to female character pages
• Category:Babies - Should be added to pages about a baby
• Category:Children - Should be added to pages about a child
• Category:Teenagers - Should be added to pages about teenagers
• Category:Adults - Should be added to pages about an adult
• Category:Seniors - Should be added to pages about people aged 60+
• Category:Characters voiced by <Voice actor> - Should be added for characters who are voiced by a regular voice cast member
• Category:Characters voiced by guest stars - Should be added to articles for characters who are voiced by guest stars

Other templates

What to type	What it makes	Notes
{{SUBST:CTP}}	Template:Article Project Characters	To be put on the talk page, informs that the page is part of Project Characters.
{{Character stub}}	This article about a Simpsons character is a stub. You can help Wikisimpsons by embiggening it.	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.

Template:Project Pages