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Tub200 wrote: Oops. I didn’t notice this discussion until after I create Shannon Kook and Barbara Beall. Should we deleted those?

We will wait a bit until we have settled on a policy for actor pages.

In regards to episodes, I do see what you mention about the black & white way cutting importance off at a certain episode amount. That's why, so far, the episode amount for characters has been so low. Because I don't want there to be any indication that a character might be insignificant because people might wanna read to them. In general, we have allowed and created pages as long as the information on them is good content. And so far I don't think there are many pages that are really deemed unnecessary in that aspect. If not, there is always candidates for deletion.

However I think the subject of character pages was brought on by Janus was to illustrate that there has to be a purpose to these character pages, just like with the actor pages.

Just creating a page where all the info can be contained to an infobox, for example, isn't enough. They should have a relation to the plot, and content to add in "throughout the series" etc etc. The same we're trying to achieve with the actor pages. And that's where the lack of it was being noticed by Admins.

Shannon Kook, while he is a great actor (I've seen other acting of his) and while he might potentially have a bigger part in S6, is at this point too much of an enigma. To give an example. He hasn't even been on screen yet. We know nothing of his character and for all we know he might get killed off within two episodes.

And yes, he has been engaging with the fans. And that is why certain actor pages were created and others weren't. But I think we should keep logical thinking in mind that if an actor hasn't even appeared on the show, or their respective character doesn't meet the 2-episode criteria, we shouldn't go ahead and rush into things.

Because then we're just making pages to make pages.

Though like I said above, we will hold off on any actions until we've decided on a number for the cast. I read 12 is too high a few times. Can you propose a better number? Keeping in mind the IMDB list of acted episodes and character appearances? I'd be happy to hear your feedback.