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Hi everyone, I've created a user sub-page User:Mr. Garrison/Portal:Characters to illistrate a character portal, something which I'd like to see applied across the wiki. It would occur for every episode, with characters appearing been shown in one portal while the cast are shown in the other. Characters can be marked as deceased by adding 'deceased=true' to their portal box which indicates which characters have died during the course of the story in question, i.e., Ianto Jones would only be marked as deceased in the Day Four character portal, but not in any other prior portal featuring his appearance. However we would need to re-upload images to fit in portal boxes, something which I have done (in poor MS Paint quality) as a trial. Thoughts? Mr. Garrison 15:38, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

I don't really see the point of this. The cast and crew for the episodes work fine already; I don't see why we want to make a lot of work for ourselves if it's not a significant improvement. -<Azes13 15:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

If this was to be applied across the wiki, images for; novels, novellas, audio dramas, short stories and comics would be lacking and we'd end up with a lot of blank boxes.

There would also be an issue of in/out of universe articles, the deceased tag wouldn't work (as all in-universe article are written from a past tense point of view).

Additionally this looks like a lot of duplication throughout the wiki.

Given the enormity of this potential project I am relatively sure it would stall (if not stop). If you just consider the number of stories there are 150 or so classic stories (depending on how you count) 63 or so new series episodes, 129 audio dramas in the main line, and a lot of books, novellas, short stories and comics that's a lot of images to find, especially considering we don't currently have images for a lot of the above. (this isn't counting all the Torchwood, Sarah Jane Adventures, Bernice Summerfield, Big Finish's other spin-off stuff, other spinoffs (like Auton, Mindgame etc)). --Tangerineduel 17:12, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

a nay vote, sorry. one, it would make it substantially longer for the relevant pages to load. two, though I know this Wiki has spoilers anyway, it would provide "spoilers at a glance". you'd know who'd live and die without even having read the article. --Stardizzy2 17:44, 21 July 2009 (UTC)