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Template talk:Infobox Flashback Character

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Usage

Blank Infobox for easy copying and pasting.

{{Infobox Flashback Character |
| Title=
| Image=
| ImageSize=
| ImageCaption=
| Appearances=
| Name=
| Status=
| Age=
| Place=
| Profession=
| Link=
| Actor=
}}


Parameter Explanation
Title The title of the Infobox, usually the character's name.
Image An image relevant to the character. It will be automatically resized.
ImageSize Size of the image. Defaults to 200x150px
ImageCaption A caption explaining the image.
Appearances Episodes the character appears in. Separate multiple episodes with commas.
Name The character's full name, or as much of the character's name that is known at the time.
Status Use "Alive" or "Deceased"
Age The character's age, if known.
Place The character main, or important locations. City, state, country.
Link The character's connection to the main characters.
Actor The actor or actress who portrays the character.

Image size

  • I'm sorry. I shouldn't have reverted the image size without discussing it here first. And my comment may have come across a little harsh (not my intention, again, sorry!). Please revert me and revert my picture fixes if I overstepped. I'd do it myself, but I have a plane to catch. (No, not Flight 815 fortunately!) -- Elvis 08:40, 7 April 2006 (PDT)

(In context to the Date of Birth vs. Age.) You're right. But this is gonna have to be corrected across the span of pages. Otherwise, every year the age is gonna have to be renewed. Better to fix this now than later. - DeviantSolution 01:09, 1 June 2006 (PDT)

Lost Experience Characters?

Why do TLE characters use this? From what I can tell, it looks like using this puts them in the Flashback Character category, which most of them aren't (Rachel Blake has never shown up in a flashback). Or is that categorization coming from something else I'm not figuring out? --Minderbinder 13:45, 5 October 2006 (PDT)

Episode names in quotes rather than italics

May I recommend that the characters templates be altered so that episode titles (in the Appearances field) not be italicized? Episode titles are properly placed in quotation marks. Robert K S 03:44, 30 October 2006 (PST)

But 'properly' according to who? Is there a standard? I've always liked seeing it more in italics, I'm just usually too lazy for this myself.. -PandoraX
  • It may be either italics, underline, or quotes depending on the manual of style (MoS) for the body of work. Since we are the staff that decide the de facto MoS of this body of work, I don't think we need to stay locked into one or the other IMHO. Personally I vote for italics. We also have pragmatics to consider here: It occurs so much throughout the site that there will always be a mix of plain text episode titles, and properly-formatted titles. With the use of italics, the discrepancy is not as much as a clash, and therefore not such a visual headache. Remember that this not only goes for episode titles, but book titles, movie titles, reference source titles, and so forth. Voting or italics here... However RKS, I've seen and really do appreciate your many formatting edits and good judgement with regard to making these! -- C¯ _Santa_ ¯TSanta 22:05, 4 November 2006 (PST)
  • Yeah, I've noticed this also, it's very hard to enforce a system-wide standard (whether or not to bold an intro word, capitalization of titles, etc), and the OCD side of me just has to chill that most things will never be uniform across the site, and just accept the best possible effort. :) It's hard enough to get people to even wikify links, and that's one click. --PandoraX

First/Last Episode

Those fields are not automatically parsing to what they should be from the old template (I think they had the first/last appearance in one field). For example, Liam Pace, you can check. Thanks. -PandoraX