Forum:Random questions about sidebars

I've taken a mini-break from my work on Season 5 articles recently, mostly due to excess of work IRL, which prevents me from dedicating more constant time to it. However, I've been grabbing random articles here and there, just filling up information, and making general cleanups. One of the things I've been working is on filling up information on sidebars, but I've stumbled upon a few questions.

Date and place of birth
Sure, I know that for the few characters that have an actual birth date, we link it to the corresponding year. But what about cast and crew? I've seen some articles about them where their birth dates are linked to the corresponding year article. I, myself, have done it a few times. But I'm wondering if it should be that way since we would be linking the article of an oou cast/crew member to an iu article about a date. Not sure if we are okay with that. The same can be said about the birthplace.

Nationalities
It seems to me a lot of characters have what seems to be their "assumed" nationality, and not the actual one. Again, I'm guilty of this as well... but a lot of times it seems we put the "American" tag to any American-looking character, when in reality we have no evidence about it (see Mark or Greer). Shouldn't we just avoid the field? And what about Erica Vasquez, Jamey Farrell's mother? Or sometimes we see a character that for some reason is connected to a certain country, and we label him as such, even though we have no evidence about his actual nationality (can't think of an example right now, but I've stumbled upon a few).

Affiliations
I've seen this field mostly used for organizations, terrorist or extremist groups, government agencies, etc. But what about regular workplaces? Should we put those on the "Profession" field, along with the actual position? For example, Benjamin, which I edited earlier today; or Gary Klausner? Meredith Reed? Joseph Fayed? Gus, Phil, and Todd?

Spouses
In cases where the character is divorced, widowed, or anything else, we should add that note to the side of the spouse name, if given, right? But if they are together, we should still label him/her as either "Wife" or "Husband"? (see Karen Hayes or Stephen).

Deaths in Redemption
We usually label the deathdate with the "Day X: 9:99pm" label, linking to the specific season and episode. But what about the deaths in Redemption? We have the time, but not a specific day. Should we put the time only, use any other label, or simply omit the field?

I think that's pretty much it. Maybe some of them are silly questions, but I would appreciate any input so we can have uniformity within all articles. Thief12 17:57, September 18, 2011 (UTC)