Forum:Voice Actor Pages V2

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		Kaimi - "No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew." TALK - 13:21, December 9, 2014 (UTC)
		I know it was discussed before and just today a voice actor page appeared. It seems that we actually agreed on that, but aside of that we didn't do anything beside that. From what I can understand the following two points were agreed to be used as a base when deciding which voice actors should get a page here: VA gets a page if they voice a recurring character (George Newbern, James Arnold Taylor) VA gets a page if they voice several characters, even if minor one (John DiMaggio, Liam O'Brien) It somewhat narrows a bit our voice actor coverage, making it seem we only would give them articles just so anons and occasional editors would shut up and stop complaining how our Wiki has a terrible voice actor coverage as compared to other Wikis. So since it appears we're going to have those pages I think we should also decide on what should be covered on voice actor pages. My proposition is as follows: Intro, just says that the person is a voice actor and his/her most prominent dubbed character in the series is XYZ. An image depicting the voice actor's in question current appearance should also be provided. Characters with single bullet points for games and double bullet points for characters that the specific voice actor voiced. Voice, this section could talk about reasons why a specific voice actor was casted to voice a specific character. (Honestly, I can't think of a good section name for it.) External Links where we put link to voice actor's Wikipedia and IMDb profiles (if such exist). Appropriate category links, actually I think it would only be "Category:Voice Actors". Is there an article you think is of an exceptional quality? Vote for it here!

		14:31, December 9, 2014 (UTC) Technobliterator Talk
		I vote no voice actor pages. They are too far outside scope and from working on FFVII's characters there is almost no information we can get for a lot of them. If people want to read about the VAs, they go to Wikipedia, not here. Sorry, I don't think my input is helpful if us having VA pages is already policy. If it is, I support your layout if we do have VA pages though, but I would make tables for characters instead probably, Game as a column and Character as one. Also that reminds me I need to get voice samples for Cloud's VA and maybe others...hm...

		Keltainentoukokuu - OH YEAH AWESOME TALK - Keltainentoukokuu (talk) 15:30, December 9, 2014 (UTC)
		Sounds good to me. If we have a voice sample(s) available maybe those could go on the page as well. If the actor has social media like Twitter maybe provide links.

I wrote my own proposal but then I realised it didn't really work. so minor points, name h2 "Roles", use table not ULs. Ext links for Wikip, IMDB, and Twitter are good.

Also I agree with what we said back then. This is at the bottom of our importance list. If there are better things people could be doing I'd rather they be doing them ;) JBed (talk) 17:05, December 9, 2014 (UTC)

		14:51, December 15, 2014 (UTC) Technobliterator Talk
		Created a VA page based on Kaimi's layout with some modifications, how's this? Is this what we should be going for? Missing an image but I'll upload that later. Just checking the layout/details are fine.

		Kaimi - "No matter how dark the night, morning always comes. And our journey begins anew." TALK - 16:25, December 15, 2014 (UTC)
		I think "Background" would maybe look better as being the first section. "Works in the series" is a terrible name and a lot of personnel pages has this section on them named in gazillion different ways and it really ticks me off and we should come with something better. The "Voice Acting" H3 header is hardly necessary, true, some voice actors provide for motion reference for some characters (I think Mayuko Aoki provided motion samples for Rinoa), but it's not that important. "Related Games" I approve but as an H3 header. "Notable Work Outside Blah-Blah-Blah". First, it's way too long name for a header name. Second, it's actually hard to determine the "notable" works outside the series so I would be keen on even not including that section altogether; if someone really wants to read more about a particular VA, the reader can read on them on Wikipedia, which is one of the links in the "External Links" H2 section. Also: Rachael Leigh Cook has stated in an interview for Kingdom Hearts that she enjoys playing the character of Tifa. I don't remember there being Tifa in the first Kingdom Hearts. Or maybe you just worded something weirdly and it came as something not understandable in regards to anything. I don't know. Is there an article you think is of an exceptional quality? Vote for it here!

		20:21, December 15, 2014 (UTC) Technobliterator Talk
		I concur with "works in the series" being a terrible name (that's Monterossa's), also I meant "Kingdom Hearts 2". I also fully agree with "Notable Work Outside" being a terrible idea, I've removed it (another thing Monterossa added). I strongly disagree with adding sections like that, which is why I summarised them briefly in Background. So, what about now?