Forum:Characters from deleted scenes

Forum: The Situation Room > Characters from deleted scenes

There are a number of characters who can only be found in DVD deleted scenes. I'm looking through the Season 4 special features, and I count five of them: Alam (Safa and Naji's father), Marwan's wife and son, Azara (a CTU agent), and Steven Wiseman (landlord at 24878 Alvert Street). I say characters like this each get their own OOU page describing what they did, and how their scenes differ from the real-IU events. It won't look like the usual character page so there won't be any confusion among visitors, and they'll have their own category. Let me know what you think. – Blue Rook 04:43, 4 April 2008 (UTC)_talkcontribs

I agree they definately should get pages. How would we link to them? I guess they could be in the "dramatic personae" section under a different heading? SignorSimon 07:25, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

I would have no idea where would be appropriate to link to them besides the Deleted scenes page. Also, I can't tell if for example, Alam, should even be listed with the standard categories that his canonical sons were listed with. Safa has three categories, so which of these if any are appropriate for Alam to have? – Blue Rook 15:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)_talkcontribs

All of them, as well as a "Deleted scenes characters" or something along those lines. SignorSimon 16:09, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd meant to suggest this a long time ago, but never got around to it. Deleted characters are separate items that do deserve their own OOU articles (as Rook said, they should look distinct from IU articles). They can be linked on the episode pages' dramatis personaes under "Deleted scenes" or something, as well as on a special "Characters from deleted scenes" article. As for categorizing, I think they should only be included in a "deleted scenes characters" category; they technically didn't appear IU, so they can't be put in with other IU characters that really do exist in the 24verse. --Proudhug 16:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Good good. One thing I'd like to avoid like the plague is having normal characters wind up in the "Dramatis personae: Deleted characters" subheading. People might start adding Jack and Tony because they appeared with Steven Wiseman, so this must be a strictly interpreted definition of "deleted characters".

Speaking of Wiseman, I made his page as an example we can tamper with if needed. Listed below are all the alterations I've made from a normal character article:

1. The Sidebar now has Deleted from for special use with these characters. We shouldn't use Appeared in because... they didn't appear.
2. Article is written in the present/present-progressive tense; no past tense is necessary because it's OOU.
3. No need for "Background information and notes" at all.
4. The headings will have Season X instead of Day X to help differentiate the pages from IU pages.
5. Appearances heading specifically says "deleted appearances"
6. There is an exclusive category just for them.

Thanks for the response, gents. – Blue Rook 19:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)_talkcontribs