Talk:List of minor EastEnders characters (2007)

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[edit] Article

Was this article needed really? Its well done and well set out but i thought having the small separate articles for the minor characters was ok as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sparhelda (talk • contribs)

I thought so too, but the individual character pages are all still listed in Category:EastEnders characters. This article follows the rules of Wikipedia, and doing it ourselves is better than being forced to do it at the end of the day... -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 19:21, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I can't believe you've changed your mind about this. Wouldn't these lists be better in alphabetical order? — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 12:41, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
I know, I still don't like them, but this way the redirects can be in the characters category (which satisfies me), and we can do more characters without their articles being tagged for importance. They're in chronological order of first appearance, which fits in with the article titles, which are also split into different time periods. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 14:28, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
And redirects now redirect to sections so it's all good. I think a-z would look neater and you can have a much smaller toc but it's your call, I've lost my passion for this now. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:08, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Why? When? Why? -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 22:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
Just now, having come back and realised I can't be bothered! But give it a few days and I'm sure I'll be fine. Didn't mean to scare you! — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:22, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
So now that there is this are we allowed to make new articles for minor characters anymore? - Sparhelda
What's the point when they can just go here? -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 19:20, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
Suppose so. - Sparhelda

I'm beginning to think that ordering them a-z would be a better idea. Mainly because we dont know the exact dates for all of them.Gungadin 15:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

I think it's better a-z as if you're trying to find a particular character, you have to search for them rather than go to that letter in the alphabet. Also the toc would be reduced to a single line. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 19:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Yes you're right. Those who are less famiilar with the show would have to trawl through the list because they probably dont know their appearance dates.Gungadin 19:55, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A few characters missing

Can we add the polish builders, and that woman who jumped on the laundry? — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:54, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Sure, add or merge whoever you like.Gungadin 23:11, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
Go for it, if you know all the details. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 00:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
I only asked because they were "soon to join" characters but never made it onto the list of departed characters. I don't remember their names :( — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 16:44, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
They'll be in the edit history for the currect character page. The polish woman was called Nahzda or something similar.Gungadin 19:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Mrs Patel!!!!! — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 19:32, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
In the process of adding her in a different window. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 19:33, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
She should be in it more often. By the way I typed that when she was on screen but it didn't go through :( — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:29, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
She was funny, I didn't realise the actress was Sunita's mum off Corrie and Pinky from Grease Monkeys, though! -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 15:01, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I didn't realise she was Mrs Shah from East is East (I love that film). Why is it the actors protraying minor characters always seem to outshine the major ones?! — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 21:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I love East is East too. Wrote about it in my RE exam last week. Can't remember who Mrs. Shah was though? -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 21:27, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
She was the one who ended up with the vagina in her lap. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 21:56, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
OH! The one with the ugly daughters?! ("MAM, MAM! The Pakis are 'ere!") I might get my East is East DVD out and cap it for her article. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 22:17, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Well you go and do that. Nothing to do with minor EastEnders characters 2005-present though. Do these articles mean we can eliminate most of the redlinks in the past characters page? I'm assuming the majority of them are minor. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:20, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah it does, apart from the actors. 1988-2004 is going to be hard though, as there is no reliable online place for specific minor character information... -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 22:22, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I think this is the best cap I have ever made! Image:Leena dhingra.JPG. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 22:32, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
That is very good, but where's the vagina? As for the characters, we'll have to pay close attention to UKTV Gold! — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 22:45, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
I don't watch the UKGold episodes, do you? -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 23:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
No, I don't think I could! — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 23:47, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Why? -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 23:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Mrs. Patel! - video provided by me :) -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 08:40, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Why? Too much EastEnders would make me go crazy. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 08:54, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Nadezhda Irina Diva, you asked for her name ages ago AP, it's the woman who jumped on the laundry, not sure of the dates tho. here's the ref "EXCLUSIVE: In video: First-look 'EastEnders' clip", Digital Spy. URL last accessed 2007-03-02 Gungadin 22:15, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Oh cool. If we can find that DS article with the video clip, maybe it has the dates. The article doesn't really help with the dates. I think she was in two episodes. anemone│projectors 22:16, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
This helps though! anemone│projectors 22:26, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
She was more deserving of an internet campaign than Mrs Patel! anemone│projectors 22:38, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Inclusion

Should we discuss which existing articles should be merged into this (and the others) or if I come across one I think should be here, should I just go ahead and do it? — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 20:37, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

Just go ahead, but if you're unsure, discuss it here. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 20:38, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Verity Wright

I have twice tried to include a paragraph about Verity's relationship with her sister and someone keeps removing it.

YourLord

Because it was WP:OR. -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 21:09, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Ah, I see. Thank you.

Anon

[edit] Redirects

Just a reminder that when creating redirects to this page and the others, you should categorise the redirects as if they were actual articles. — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 10:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

No you shouldn't :) See WP:CAT-R. — AnemoneProjectors (会話) 22:16, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Split?

Does anyone think we should be splitting this page. It's getting very long and if it's updated till 2009 it will be huge.Gungadin 00:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

How do you propose it is split? Splitting will require a lot of redirects to be changed, but then again we'd have had to do that in 2010 anyway when this was renamed to 2005-2009 (i don't know why it wasn't just called that in the first place!) — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 11:30, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I dont know what would be a good way to split it to be honest, i'm just imagining that it will get really big as we are much more thorough about adding minor characters now. We could either split from 2005-2006, and make another from 2007-2009, but the 2007-2009 is likely to get very big also. It could be split yearly. What's the limit for page size or doesnt it matter?
If you think size wont be an issue then lets leave it. However I do think we should rename it 2005-2009 sooner rather than later, because it will be less of a chore to do it now than in 2010 (by which time we will probably all have given up on the project anyway, lol).Gungadin 15:06, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually I think changing present to 2009 is a bit WP:CRYSTALish... for all we know, EastEnders could be scrapped by then, so renaming actually can't be done until 2010 (or the end of the series if that's sooner!) As for splitting... ask Trampikey? — AnemoneProjectors (zomg!) 20:18, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm of the personal opinion that it's alright how it is, though I understand concerns about size... Whatever's best really... -Trampikey(talk)(contribs) 21:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More characters who need to be added

The twins and that posh wedding planner woman. And another character who I've forgotten but they were in it this week too. And they also need to be added to the list of past characters. — AnemoneProjectors (会話) 22:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

The woman who jumped on the laundry never made it onto either list :( — AnemoneProjectors (会話) 22:17, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
Shall we introduce an others section box, like I did with the 92 minors. We can add all single named characters, like the laundry jumping woman, twins and wedding planner, and the Mr and Mrs characters.Gungadin♦ 15:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
Yeah go on then. It would be a shame to lose them all. — AnemoneProjectors (会話) 15:34, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Bernadette should be included somewhere. I guess the Others. anemone│projectors 23:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)