Wikisimpsons:Style Guide Characters

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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 Category:Character stub 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. User Status Since Notes (You can add notes for your section) Smiley12 Inactive 00:54, December 29, 2009 Project Founder. Kingcjc Inactive 12:55, December 30, 2009 is Awesome Combee123 Inactive 01:01, January 2, 2010 — Solar Dragon Active 22:10, January 17, 2010 Wikisimpsons Bureaucrat Simpsons88 Inactive 18:30, February 10, 2010 — Dohayecarumbadoh Inactive 01:05, March 24, 2010 — Diekodosdie Inactive 16:20, April 17, 2010 — UFO Editor Inactive 21:35 April 24 2010 — Effluvium Active 22:25, 21 May 2010 Wikisimpsons Admin TheSimpsons Inactive 00:34 July 26 2010 Loves The Simpsons Wikiboy96 Inactive 20:00 August 29 2010 I <3 The Simpsons FirebenderFan Inactive 05:29, September 6, 2010 — Doh5678 Active 20:30 November 2010 AleWi Active 14:35 January 3, 2011 — Will k Active 08:50, 27 January 2011 (UTC) — Article that Needs Work Some articles needa lot of work put into them. Every couple of months we will have an article that needs lots of work. This months is: Ms. Finch Message to all Project Members 250px Template:Novoice {{Novoice}} Use this template for characters who don't have a voice actor listed on their page. Using it will produce this: 100px This article is missing voice actor information. Please improve the article, or discuss the issue on the talk page. 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 Example Example Character Information Gender: Male ♂ or bgcolor="#ed1c24" style="border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;" | Female ♀ 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. 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 Template:Advert 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. What to type Used if {{Simpsons characters}} All character articles. {{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 Springfield 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 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}} 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.