Forum:Episode guides and Uncredited appearances

I just started giving this some thought. Sometimes actors are not credited for their appearances, but we list them anyway in the Dramatis Personae under certain headings. Who chooses what headings they go under? Isn't this arbitrary? I really think the only valid option is to create a subheading called Uncredited appearances and put everybody in an episode who wasn't credited for any reason whatsoever under it. This entails the following:


 * 1) It counts for major characters: we would need to go back and move all of Roger Stanton's appearances in his episodes to Uncredited appearances
 * 2) It counts for insignificant characters too: Joyner gets listed there, and the first appearances of Basheer and the like also have to get there

I would be willing to do all of this shifting around, it isn't too difficult anyway.

Also, I could make a category for Actors with uncredited appearances or something, where we could place everyone who ever appeared without being credited (regardless of whether or not they appeared sometime before or later with a credit).

Other things to consider:
 * 1) The alternative to this is to leave it as it currently is, which I argue is arbitrary.
 * 2) If people like this idea, should we mark the new subheading with parentheses, like this: (Uncredited appearances), in order to indicate it's our convention? Or is it self-explanatory? – Blue Rook 21:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)talk contribs