Talk:Leanne Battersby

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Contents 1 Fair use rationale for Image:Leanne Battersby CS 2007.jpg 2 Family — To Step or Not to Step? 3 Subheadings

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Leanne Battersby CS 2007.jpg

Image:Leanne Battersby CS 2007.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot 07:42, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Family — To Step or Not to Step?

I re-input Leanne's extended family for two reasons: (1) to eliminate them only because they are “step” family members suggests the editor who deleted comes from that rare beast, a nuclear family, and cannot fathom how one might consider one's step-family members as family; and (2) just because her storyline does not currently have her involved with any of them does not change the facts of Leanne's life, current or past. SpikeToronto (talk) 19:18, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I'm following a legend of friend of mine here. Trampikey by not couting stepfamily or in-laws in British soap characters articles. He started with EastEnders and Emmerdale, and I gradually followed suit on All of the other main british soaps; However, I'm not above listing stepfamily information in Australian soap articles. Conquistador2k600:27 21 January 2008 (UTC)

I’m all for following models to maintain some consistency across articles for soap opera characters. In fact, in a recent debate, re: deletion of the Roy Cropper article, a wikipedian pointed to the wikiarticle on Pauline Fowler as a good example for us to follow. That being said, there’s following models … and then there’s being slavish about it. If there is a good reason to list “step” family members in Australian (and American) soaps, then why would the same logic not apply to British soaps? Other than following a model that might have that as its one flaw, what reason could there be to suspend that logic vis-à-vis soaps from the U.K.? I think that if a character considers, or has in the past considered, another character as family, such persons should be so listed. Also, it helps new viewers of the soap to better orient themselves as to the familial relationships, consanguineous and otherwise, of the characters whom they are watching. SpikeToronto (talk) 21:56, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Subheadings

Subheadings make this article much easier to navigate. A reader need only click on the section s/he is interested in from the table of contents and be directed straight to it. Moreover, the Wikipedia Manual of Style reminds us that once a subheading is created, elsewhere on Wikipedia, other wikiauthors create wikilinks to it. To unilaterally remove a subheading — or to alter a subheading — is to break those links. See also: Section Headings. Nonetheless, even if one could remove them, the article is much easier to navigate with them left in place. SpikeToronto (talk) 23:53, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

The use of subheadings in this article is absolutely and completely excessive. The contents of each subheading is stubby, unreferenced, and in direct violation of WP:PLOT. Summary of the character's storylines should be brief, and not take precedence over real world information, which this article is entirely lacking. One or two subheadings might be acceptable, 19 is absolutely not. Frickative (talk) 01:59, 21 March 2008 (UTC)