Tardis talk:Guide to writing Individuals articles

Headings
By way of gentle reminder, all headings must follow Tardis:Manual of Style. Please make sure when you finish your article that all headings and subheads are in "Sentence case" — not, as is currently true, "Title Case".  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  18:26, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

DEFAULTSORT
This guide must also, when complete, stress the importance of using. It's absolutely vital for easiest categorization of articles that people get in the habit of using that instead of adding a sortkey to each individual category.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  18:30, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

Preloadable templates
This article should also stress the convenience of preloadable templates, which come with this formatting intact. You should make sure that you're writing to that preloadable template's format, as well. See the newpage individual template.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  18:30, June 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, no, of course I have that wrong. The vast majority of characters will not abide whatever format you write up.  So the newpage individual template is somewhat irrelevant.  Your instructions should actually include  several different cases.  One for the "average" character, about which we know nothing.  One for the co-starring character, about which we may know a bit more.  And one for the true leads.   You seem to be writing a format for the Doctor and companion pages, at the moment, and that's just not gonna fly for the vast majority of character pages.   You really should attempt to provide alternative formats, otherwise we'll end up with a lot of pages that say "to be added" for every subhead — and of course that information will never be added.


 * Now that I think about it, I'm kinda opposed to your continuing this page in the Tardis: namespace. It's too far away from actual policy to be here.  Individuals are, well, individual, and trying to shoehorn in a format may not be particularly wise.  This page definitely should not be live right now.  Please take it back to your user page and work on it there, or at the forum page.  This is trickier than it might seem on first blush.   Czech Out   ☎ | ✍  18:40, June 3, 2010 (UTC)

Delete
I'm recommending deletion, even though you've got an in-use tag up. You're writing policy without a clear idea of where you're going. Not saying this thing can't come back, but its particulars really need to be hashed out first.  Czech Out  ☎ | ✍  18:41, June 3, 2010 (UTC)