Thread:SusannahWithAnH/@comment-4934571-20140620225558

Hi Susannah!

All of my exams are over and I finally have a plenty of time - so I'm able to edit and contribute at 200 percent. I'm here every day, I know about every single contribution. There are few things that make me confused or I feel that they need to be fixed. Also I want to know your opinion on some of my ideas. There is so much to say - I know I'll forget something and I don't wanna make a very long list. I'll write the second part when the other things come to my mind. So there are the most urgent ones:

I see that you've added the names of GGF episodes to Jane and other characters. And that is one of those things I'm thinking about for a very long time. You know, we can't list the episodes this way because Appearances section would be way too long. Jane is fine, but what about Rachel or Muriel who appeared in many episodes of Road to Avonlea?
 * Appearances

I visited other wikis in order to find an inspiration and I realized there are three options. The first one - creating templates. Like those we have for Seasons 1-7 of Road to Avonlea. With only one difference - links. Episode where the charcter doesn't appear would be without the link. Episode where he or she was mentioned would be with link. And the only with a proper appearance would be with bold link. But there will be many templates, it won't look good and we will have to hide them, so I don't like this idea very much.

The second one is putting "show/hide" next to every TV series/short stories book. However, it doesn't work very well. And the last option is creating individual pages - like that list of GGF episodes or character lists. So the appearances would be just like they are now, but the details (episodes and short stories) would be elsewhere. I found this option on TARDIS Wiki. It works brilliantly and I like it. So... I wanna know your opinion. What will we use? Or have you any other idea?

I wanna thank you for your edits on film pages. I wanted to do that myself, but I had no time and honestly, I wasn't sure how to categorize all those actors. I think films are OK now. But I'm curious about that change from recurring to supporting cast (TV series pages). It's basically the same, but in TV terminology, they rather use "recurring". Many wikis use that word - it's more often and you don't have to think about that very much. (Wikipedia says that supporting characters appear in more than half of the episodes - when you use "recurring", you don't have to think about the half of the season. And you don't have to create another section.) However, it is unclear when the characters is recurring or guest. I do not know it myself. When I added Road to Avonlea cast members, I sorted them to those 4 categories (main, recurring, guest and other). Many TV series wikis (where one season is 20-26 episodes long) list character with three or less appearances as guest cast. I changed it to one or two appearances as RtA seasons are really short. Wikipedia says, that "[guest star] does not belong to the regular cast" and "appears in one or a few episodes". They are usually celebrities. I think that two episodes are OK for guest cast in both RtA and the animated series. And the last thing - cannery boys, workers, old ladies and co. belong to other cast. They have very minor roles and there is no need to add them to guest cast. I've written very much - this would be the last point. Recently we added pages for many episodes and I want to continue with Akage no An as I'm planning to watch it this summer. However, I can't find any info about the voice cast in particular episodes. And I don't know how to read Japanese credits. Apparently, the only way how to find it out is "watch the episode and write down the notes about people who said at least one word". But there are also characters who don't speak (Billy Andrews). It's not like in live-action series where are real people and even if they don't say a word, they are in final credits. I think that we should add another section only for characters who appeared in that episode.
 * Cast
 * Akage no An

So... What do you think? :D 