Forum:Actor/crew template changes

Forum: The Situation Room > Actor/crew template changes

Moving this discussion here so others can see. I made some alterations to Template:Newpage actor, hoping to make them more consistent and a little less unwieldy. The layout is this:

Person was a role on 24.

(biography, career, etc.)

24 credits

List of seasons and episode credits. If there's very few, just a plaintext list:

• "Day 9: 11:00am-12:00pm"
• "Day 9: 12:00pm-1:00pm"

Or if there's a bunch, collapsible:

• 24
  • Season 1 (all episodes except "3:00pm-4:00pm")
  • Season 2 (all episodes)
  • Season 3 (all episodes)
  • Season 4
    • "Day 4: 1:00pm-2:00pm" (uncredited)
    • "Day 4: 2:00pm-3:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 3:00pm-4:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 4:00pm-5:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 5:00pm-6:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 6:00pm-7:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 7:00pm-8:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 8:00pm-9:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 9:00pm-10:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 10:00pm-11:00pm"
    • "Day 4: 11:00pm-12:00am"
    • "Day 4: 12:00am-1:00am"
    • "Day 4: 1:00am-2:00am"
    • "Day 4: 2:00am-3:00am"
    • "Day 4: 3:00am-4:00am"
    • "Day 4: 4:00am-5:00am"
    • "Day 4: 5:00am-6:00am"
    • "Day 4: 6:00am-7:00am"
  • Season 5
    • "Day 5: 7:00am-8:00am"
    • "Day 5: 11:00am-12:00pm"
    • "Day 5: 5:00pm-6:00pm"
    • "Day 5: 6:00pm-7:00pm"
    • "Day 5: 7:00pm-8:00pm"
    • "Day 5: 8:00pm-9:00pm"
  • Season 7
    • "Day 7: 8:00am-9:00am"
    • "Day 7: 9:00am-10:00am"
    • "Day 7: 10:00am-11:00am"
    • "Day 7: 11:00am-12:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 12:00pm-1:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 1:00pm-2:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 2:00pm-3:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 5:00pm-6:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 6:00pm-7:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 9:00pm-10:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 10:00pm-11:00pm"
    • "Day 7: 11:00pm-12:00am"
    • "Day 7: 12:00am-1:00am"
    • "Day 7: 1:00am-2:00am"
    • "Day 7: 2:00am-3:00am"
    • "Day 7: 3:00am-4:00am"
    • "Day 7: 4:00am-5:00am"
    • "Day 7: 5:00am-6:00am"
    • "Day 7: 6:00am-7:00am"
    • "Day 7: 7:00am-8:00am"
• 24: The Game

Subsections if it makes sense:

Actor

Producer

Director

For people who worked on entire seasons (producers, etc.)

• Season 1: Producer
• Season 2 - Season 4: Executive Producer
• Season 7
  • "Day 7: 8:00am-9:00am" - "Day 7: 3:00pm-4:00pm": Executive Producer
  • "4:00pm-5:00pm" - "7:00am-8:00am": Executive Consultant

24-related appearances

Same as it is now, list of chronological appearances. I'm torn as to whether this deserves its own section, since it's pretty well tied in to all the above

Selected filmography

• Thing (2001)

Television appearances

• Thing (2004)

Changed to a non-TOC header because usually there's not nearly enough items under TV appearances to justify it

External links

• Person at the Internet Movie Database

Any suggestions? If there's no objections I can use the bot to switch everything over to follow this - minor changes overall. --Pyramidhead (talk) 23:32, July 2, 2014 (UTC)

I agree with changing the television appearances from an h3 into a bold text with the bot - seems sensible as it looks better without an (unneeded) "edit section" link, and less need for NOTOCs.

I also think the collapsible list of episode credits is useful on actor pages - most notably for people like Kavita Patil or Dana Bunch who appeared in a whole chunk of episodes in a background role, and there's nowhere else we can list which episodes they actually appeared in. More of these type of people are being discovered all the time ([1]). We also already have these kinds of lists for crew members, so it would make sense to have a similar section of actor pages.

Am I right in thinking this is not something that would be easy to add to all the actor pages retroactively (with a bot)? How would you get a list of the episodes the actor appeared in? Surely this may have to be done manually?--Acer4666 (talk) 01:11, July 3, 2014 (UTC)