Talk:Heroes

I request a formatting to allow full Wikipedia style infoboxes and tables. --Gaterion 20:29, 17 October 2006 (EDT)

How's it look now? Added the Wikipedia infobox and wikitable CSS. (Admin 00:00, 18 October 2006 (EDT))

• Is this just a reprint of the WP article? Do we still need it? Its redlinks are showing up as needed pages.--Hardvice 17:17, 24 October 2006 (EDT)
  • I believe it was originally taken from Wikipedia by the original contributor, yes. Since we're striving for original content I'd be in favor of eliminating it and recreating a new version here if we need one at some point in the future. I believe the desired goal was to be able to clean up the Main Page and keep it from getting too long by moving the character lists deeper into the wiki. If we wind up with too much on the Main Page at some point then I'd suggest that's when we start optimizing it for space, but until then I think it's ok. Will leave [[Heroes]] around for a little while to solicit any more opinions on its deletion before I actually delete it. (Admin 17:28, 24 October 2006 (EDT))
    • Cool. I was able to wipe p most of its redlinks with redirects, many of which we probably needed anyway.  :)--Hardvice 17:30, 24 October 2006 (EDT)
      • I'm seriously up for deleting this page. It holds no purpose now that almost every piece on information on it is talked about more indepth on their own separate pages. Maybe we should still keep a [[Heroes]] around to explain a brief overview of the series but certainly not this dated copy of the Wikipedia page. --Sidney 01:39, 26 October 2006 (EDT)
        • Talk about resurrecting a discussion from the past! :) I think we need a Heroes article again to provide a description of the show itself. We have all this material on everything that has happened in Heroes, but no high-level article on Heroes itself. We've got every other piece of info people would like to know about the show except for an in-depth explanation of the show itself. (Admin 16:33, 16 April 2007 (EDT))
          • I very much agree. I was actually just thinking about that the other day and was going to write something, but got sidetracked. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 17:51, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
            • I just added some Heroes links on lostpedia but we didn't have a page for Heroes so I had to link to the one on wikipedia. -Lөvөl 18:06, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
              • Was it you that added the links on Isaac of Uluru? It was the one Wikipedia link on that page that convinced me that we need a Heroes page of our own again. (Admin 18:25, 16 April 2007 (EDT))
                • That was indeed Level who gave us some love over on lostpedia (and fixed Issac's name, too). I've seen some other sites that have done similar things. I'm all in favor of a a Heroes page. Soon enough, soon enough. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 20:07, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

Suggested additions

Checklist of some things we can do to improve this article:

• Expand description of Heroes show
• Expand Season 1 description
• Incorporate info from Broadcasts article, but rewrite it so it's original content.
• Heroes 360 info (approx. date it started, brief description of what it is, link to Heroes 360.
  • Okay, I've got not so much a checklist, but some ideas:

• General overview of the graphic novels
• Media quotes about Heroes
• I wouldn't mind seeing a link to awards
• A mention of the art auctions for the Pediatric Epilepsy Project
• One of the things for which I'm constantly searching is ratings. Ultimately, Nielsen's site only gives the top 10 each week. Entertainment Weekly often prints the top 20, but they're inconsistent (sometimes they do primetime, sometimes cable, sometimes just daytime, etc.) I would love if somebody could find info about viewership and ratings
• And while I'm on the subject of viewers, I'm really curious as to the amount of downloads each GN gets, or how many hits http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/ gets.

• The page also needs a category. I guess Category:Heroes, or would that be too...odd? — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 23:12, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

• Maybe Category:Production? Heroe!(talk) 23:58, 16 April 2007 (EDT)

• Production is more for behind-the-scenes articles. This will in part be about the content of the show. It could be both Heroes and Production.--Hardvice (talk) 00:02, 17 April 2007 (EDT)

• I wouldn't mind it in both categories ... though I don't think it necessarily needs to go in either portal. — RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 00:08, 17 April 2007 (EDT)

TOCRIGHT?

• Although I like the characters sidebar, it's a bit out-of-date, and now that this article is huge, the TOC is creating massive whitespace. I'd suggest we axe the characters sidebar (or update it and work it into a page element instead of a sidebar) and just go with TOCRIGHT to cut down on the whitespace.--Hardvice (talk) 17:15, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
  • I'm not married to it, but I do like the character bar. It's nice to have some color and graphics on an otherwise text-laden page. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 18:47, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
    • I agree completely, hence my hesitation to axe it. But there's gotta be a way to work in that info and some colour without creating vast chunks of whitespace in an already enormous article. It certainly does need a toc, though.--Hardvice (talk) 19:29, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
      • Just added the tocright and it looks much better, imho. Anyone mind if we replace Isaac and Simone with Alejandro and Maya on the character bar? I don't think it needs to be axed, just updated.--MiamiVolts (talk) 19:48, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
        • TOC looks good. Maya, Ando, and Sylar should be added since they're main characters. Alejandro is not. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 22:17, 10 October 2007 (EDT)
          • Ok, but now that Maya hasn't been around for a while, should she still be here? --Isaac Mendez 12:36, 25 May 2009 (EDT)
            • Despite Maya's absence, Dania Ramirez is still officially a principal cast member for Season Three. We don't know who the Season Four principal actors are yet. When we do, we will update the list of characters. -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 15:55, 25 May 2009 (EDT)

Does anyone expect Hugh Laurie coming to the show?

I do. Oh yeah I do. I think he would do nice as Samson Gray, but John Glover did it great anyway. You see, House M.D. had many actors from Heroes who guest starred: Greg Grunberg, Matthew John Armstrong, Jayma Mays, Nicholas D'Agosto, Thomas Dekker, that guy who portrayed the frozen and shattered reporter... How about Hugh Laurie visiting Heroes?) -- Altes 09:07, 11 June 2009 (EDT)

I don't think Hugh will be coming to Heroes anytime soon, he makes too much success (and money) with House to leave the show. Intuitive Empath - Talk - Contributions 12:01, 11 June 2009 (EDT)

A Brave New World

Talk about A Brave New World being the series finale got me thinking. What happens to the wiki when they cancel the show? --Boycool42 08:19, 24 January 2010

• It stays around. So long as there's enough traffic to earn the money to pay for the server, I imagine Admin will keep it around. I know quite a few people who wait until the season is over, then they buy the DVD and watch the entire season at once. It will be nice to have the wiki around for those people...and for tho many who continue watching reruns or late showings in other countries or on Hulu, etc. Plus, a lot of our information here is about cast and crew members, which will still need to be updated, even if Heroes is over and there are no sequels... -- RyanGibsonStewart (talk) 14:52, 24 January 2010 (EST)