Talk:List of Mobile Suit Gundam SEED characters

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[edit] Pages for Miguel Aiman and Rusty Mackenzie

I've added pages for Miguel and Rusty. Please don't delete them.

[edit] Picture for Murdoch's personal page?

Anybody got one?

[edit] Links to character's personal pages

I't OK to have individual pages for the main characters, as long as they exist. Why, why, put the names in double braces, if their page is blank and redirects HERE?!? If you want to detail someone's page, please do so, but put some text into it! Linking to redirect pages makes no sense whatsoever.

For this reason I reverted back to my version, where the only active links are those actually working.

I'm actually looking forward to having detailed pages about the main characters of SEED Destiny, like Shinn and Talia Gladys. If you are interested in filling them up, I will gladly format them and include them in the proper categories. So far the info about them is scarce and can stay in this page.

Please, do not link to redirects.

[edit] UPDATE:

If you want to compile a page to a character which does not have one, follow the following steps:

  • do a search for the character name on the wikipedia
  • if the search finds nothing, just create the page
  • if the search jumps to this same page (Cosmic Era list of characters), this means there already is a redirect page:
  • on the top of this page, just under the title, there should be a small text saying "redirected from CharacterName"
  • just click on the name, you'll see the page which has only the #REDIRECT entry; this is the character's page
  • edit this page, removing the redirect code (the text you enter should be enough to be on a separate page, if you want to insert a few data, put them on the main page; do not enter data about other characters, battles, mobile suits or technologies, they belong to their respective pages)
  • after you finished editing, you can change the character name in this page to become a link (add the square brackets); DO SO ONLY IF THE PAGE EXISTS AND IS NO LONGER A REDIRECT

[edit] Response

  • Actually just so you would jbiw during my first test when i was using the sandbox on Shinn Asuka's name before I came up with the (Character Profile) Idea all it did was just redirect me back to this page I also checked the Alphabetical Index and Shinn Asuka's name showed up on my search and yes it was a redirect. I also did some more sandbox tests today with the Three Ships Alliance section and some of the entries only came with a non-link, but unforuanately it was only for some of the unimportant Characters. But by following your advice I just learned how to remove redirect codes and by trying out but not saving on the Dearka Elsman Character Data. Also I compliment you on following my suggestion about identifing which Gundam SEED series that the indivdual character appears in. I only did this in the first place to try to help deal with the redirect problem.

[edit] Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aisha (Gundam SEED)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aisha (Gundam SEED) has closed with the result of "merge/redirect". Please merge any relevant information from [1]. —Quarl (talk) 2006-12-10 22:27Z

[edit] Cleanup

The character listing is fairly long, winding, and confusing for an article. I'll be basically doing an entire revamp first by moving the characters to their respective articles (mainly the the manga characters). While they do fall under the universe of SEED, this article I believe should be dedicated to just the respective SEED and Destiny characters. That would cut down majorly on the size. The manga characters can fit well in their respective home articles which are fairly stub sized and would welcome the information. Fox816 (talk) 00:26, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

The character lists have been separated for the most with the SEED and Destiny remaining while Astray and Destiny Astray moved into their respective list. In terms of organization of the remaining list I think sticking to allegiance is best instead of alternatives such as (Natural / Coordinators) or (Earth / PLANTs) which would cause confusion. One problem that I'm encountering is some repetitive listings of characters for allegiance. To counter this leads for each section would be best suited. As well, I'm not sure if using the GS/GSD tags would be good also. Destiny is the sequel and a number of characters are recurring. The major characters have their own articles so drawing out which one appears in Destiny shouldn't be too much of a hassle. Fox816 (talk) 04:23, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps the characters should be listed by original/first allegiance instead of every allegiance they were affiliated with? The "Three Ships Alliance" section can then be removed, since it is made up of characters from other allegiances, and there are a few Destiny-only characters listed there, even though the Three Ships Alliance only existed during SEED. The GS/GSD tags can be removed from the characters who have their articles, but leaving the tags for the characters without their own articles would help clarify if they were in SEED, Destiny, or both. --Silver Edge (talk) 04:44, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
That could work also. That way we won't have Crews listed twice. Also character rewrites would also help clarify things. Fox816 (talk)