Subject: Okay...
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Posted on: 2011-05-15 08:03:00 UTC
But what about Agents you plan to write about? I mean, just because I haven't written an introduction yet... I still have the ten-page bio, complete with every background character, I can just redlink them for now, right?Kidding! Don't kill me!GAH! Don't kill me!!
Is anyone else having everything come up blank?
I have one thing to say: One sentence and an infobox does not a character page make.
Aster and I recently spent months working to clear out a gazillion stub character pages in order to improve the overall appearance and coherence of the wiki, and we'd like it if you didn't undo the effort. You don't have to follow this exactly if you don't want to, but please use this as a guide for content your character page should have in it so as to be an actual article and not a stub: http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Help:HowtoMakeaCharacter_Page
Please, if you're not ready to post actual content in your article, wait until you are.
~Neshomeh
Is it just current Agents who get a character page? Or do posthumous characters have to have their information as a blurb on a related character's page?
If you've got more than a few lines of basic statistics to say about them, then a page is probably fine, but in cases of "X was Y's former partner until Z happened to them" or similar, just a mention on Y's page is probably sufficient--especially if they never appear in any stories.
~Neshomeh
But what about Agents you plan to write about? I mean, just because I haven't written an introduction yet... I still have the ten-page bio, complete with every background character, I can just redlink them for now, right?Kidding! Don't kill me!GAH! Don't kill me!!
Go to the Glossary of PPC Characters. There are directions for all kinds of material for your characters. There are bit characters with only one appearance that are linked. There are characters that have a homepage, but no spin-off yet.
You don't have to link to your spin-off, but if you have other material posted online (and you have Permission) you can post a link to 'home' instead of 'spin off' while your characters are being written.
You don't have to redlink. Just be sure to change the link to the actual spin offs when you do manage to make a spin off for them.
Don't worry guys-- we (and by we, I mean the amazing Neshomeh) already thought of this stuff! Just read the directions and it will serve all of your character-linking needs.
I am not going to actually add my not-yet-written characters to the Glossary. Besides, the Wiki is still a strange ans frightening territory of which VM was not meant to wot.