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| Canon • Notability • Naming • Conjecture |
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| Characters • Galleries • Style • Merchandise (Mattel) |
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| Warnings • Blocking • Appeals |
Characters are the heart and soul of the Cars franchise. This page outlines the nature and philosophy of their pages, and how to effectively interweave "in-universe" story information with real-world analysis and contextual supplements.
Basics
- Intro sentences should pre-summarize a character's defining traits, major appearances and developments, and when applicable, overall role.
- {{character infobox}} for basic information. Automatically added to list of characters. Colors can be themed, official correlations as first point-of-reference
- CG art, specifically personality poses, using their default (most common) appearance take priority. Hierarchy to be expanded in-depth: pose deliberately drawn for representational purposes > in-universe pose or portrait that the character has chosen to represent themselves > screen-grab or illustration unanimously agreed among users to best do so
- Biography/History sections use an overall out of universe style to guide a (sort of) in-universe perspective of events, not terribly unlike that of say, Wookieepedia. One reason is a comparatively less-managed canon; another is to ease the juxtaposition with what otherwise can only be written out-of-universe, like media, actors, publishers, and so on.
- Galleries offer placement for additional, constructive images which don't fit either for space or context in the article prior. Exceedingly long sections should be moved to a full gallery page (and linked accordingly). Bare-bones essentials include any artwork (2D and 3D), and at least one screenshot identifying scene (or equivalent) of appearance within a given media. If they appear in more than 2-3 shots, not all are necessary unless they reveal extra info about the character themselves. For even more prominent characters, less is more: Do not include every single shot, much less every single frame of every single shot.
- Each page should go in appropriate categories, like [MEDIA CHARACTER APPEARS IN] Characters, and more specific categories like Category:Racers or Category:Deceased characters just to name a few.
Examples
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On Eugene Carbureski's page, this would be a poor gallery item - while visible, the character in question is distant in the background, while other, closer-up shots already exist to illustrate the same event (crash scene).
