Template talk:Infobox person

Person infobox
By the way, I was thinking that we could use a person infobox (for real-life persons, like devs and voice actors). Any ideas on what fields it should have? I was thinking of the credits being covered a bit like the games in the perk infobox. Ausir(talk) 20:43, October 9, 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, "date of birth" and "nationality" come to mind. Maybe also full/alternate name, a field for a wikipedia/actor profile link and a "other notable roles" field (for actors' roles outside the Fallout games) or "other notable games" for devs. Then a "roles"/"games worked on" section for their work in the FO games, with a row generated for each game entered for the "game" parameters. So for actors you'd have (example):


 * And for devs something like:


 * Just as a rough starting point. DoB might be a bit problematic for devs. -- Porter21 (talk) 22:47, October 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * We could also give a link to a voice actor's IMDb so people can look at their works easily instead of just their wikipedia page. Shadowrunner56 23:08, October 9, 2009 (UTC)


 * Moved the discussion here because it will likely get too lengthy for the project talk page. The template itself is not functional, I just created it so we could have a talk page to discuss it on. -- Porter21 (talk) 08:26, October 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'd include links to IMDb (actors) and MobyGames (devs) in the infobox. Anyway, sounds good to me. And we do know the birthdates of some devs. :) Ausir(talk) 18:43, October 10, 2009 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure about the "roles"/"games worked on" sections. As you can already see to a certain extent in Sawyer's infobox with FNV, longer game names cause the left column to grow wider and wider, so I guess it'd be better to avoid putting game names there. Not sure how to set it up differently though.
 * In addition, I think we should use "credited as" instead of "full name" - for (less well known) actors it's somewhat common to be credited with a "wrong" name. We could also include place of birth and/or nationality.
 * Regarding wikipedia links, I guess it's visible I changed my mind half way through writing my first post :) I already changed the "wikipedia" field to a generic "external links" one, that way you can insert whatever's appropriate (not every dev and actor will have a wikipedia article anyway). -- Porter21 (talk) 20:21, October 10, 2009 (UTC)

Draft finished
Created infobox according to specifications discussed above. -- Porter21 (talk) 00:05, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not really fond of the abbreviations - I'd rather have it display the full name (or a shortened name in case of "Fallout: BOS" or "FO: New Vegas"). Ausir(talk) 01:39, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * It's already been changed, I simply had no time to rework abb yesterday. -- Porter21 (talk) 11:14, October 19, 2009 (UTC)