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[edit] Characters included

I'm not sure about some of the characters we currently have in the links template. I think it's been up to individual editors who went in so far so I'm hoping to start some discussion here to build a consensus.

The Wire
Episodes | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3
Characters
Police:	Jimmy McNulty	Kima Greggs	Cedric Daniels	Lester Freamon	Ellis Carver	Herc Hauk
Street:	Avon Barksdale	Stringer Bell	Bodie Broadus	Wee-Bey Brice	Omar Little	Marlo Stanfield
Docks:	Frank Sobotka	Nick Sobotka	Ziggy Sobotka	The Greek	Spiros Vondas	Serge Malatov
Politics:	Tommy Carcetti	Clarence Royce	Rhonda Pearlman	Clay Davis	Marla Daniels	Judge Phelan

Currently the police section includes McNulty, Greggs, Daniels, Freamon, Carver and Hauk. I would like to see Bunk in there. He's been a starring character for longer than Freamon, Carver and Hauk. Rawls and Burrell probably should also be included. I thought maybe dividing the police up into officers and investigators would give enough room to achieve this.

The street section includes Wee-Bey, who is only a guest starring character. Perhaps D'Angelo and/or Cutty should be in there.

In the docks section I would swap Serge for Beadie as she was a starring character.

Politics seems Ok for now but Norman Wilson is a starring character so I'm interested to see whether he develops to become more significant than other characters, Phelan for example. --Opark 77 19:59, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Bubbles is pretty noticeable in his absence. Bunk, Rawls, and Burrell, I agree, definitely need to be there. Perhaps we don't necessarily need rows of equal length?

Also, I think the rows should be of different colored backgrounds, or at least alternating light-colored/white, to make it easier to see who fits in which group. I will go see if there is a character template somewhere that I really like, which we could emulate. Andrew Levine 23:05, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Personally I think D'Angelo is more noticable in his absense of The Street, even though he is dead. In the first season he was the main character of the street to McNulty's main character of the police. then again we could always use a smaller font but more comprehensive template that includes all the seperate facets of the police, law, street and politics. –– Lid^(Talk) 02:05, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone else think there should be a section added focusing on The School? It is one of the major categories on HBO's character website. [1]. Perhaps it could include the four core students, as well as maybe Prez and Colvin. Of course, the students should probably get their own character pages first. Also, shouldn't it say Season 4 on the top bar as well? Just a thought. Thebogusman 20:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Oops, forget the comment about Season 4, I was looking at the outdated template on the talk page. Thebogusman 20:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I like the addition of the school section. In response to earlier discussion. I think Bubbles and D'Angelo both deserve a place. Certainly more than Wee-Bey, Phelan or Marla Daniels do. I think an alternating colour scheme would be helpful.

I'm going to add Wilson and Russell and try out an officers section for the police.--Opark 77 22:40, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oops

I tried to revert what looked like a vandal edit, only to find it had already been reverted. Sorry about that. It would help if popups were giving me the correct version. However, it was wrong when I tried to revert back too. Will (Talk - contribs) 23:18, 1 December 2006 (UTC)