User:Hardvice

About Me

Hi there!

Before you ask, no, my username isn't something kinky. It's an anagram.

My name is Dave and I'm from Austin, TX. I'm a recent law school graduate. Some other places to find me on the Internet:

• Encyclopedia Dramatica, another Wiki where I'm a sysop.
• My LiveJournal
• 9th Wonders, the semi-official Heroes fansite
• and I guess there's always my MySpace Page, although I'm not quite sure what the purpose of MySpace is

...all under the same username. The only place I use a different username is on TOW where I'm "ImHardviceonED" (long story).

Some Links

Templates

• Template:Character box (sidebar for character pages)
• Template:nav (bottom navbar for Episodes)
• Template:Episode sidebar (sidebar for episodes)
• Template:characternav (Bottom navbar for characters)
• Template:location (Links to Wikipedia articles for real-world locations)
• Template:noimage (adds links to upload & edit and categorizes as needing image)
• Template:Graphic Novel sidebar (adds sidebar for Graphic Novel articles)
• Template:tocright (floats TOC on right. Don't use with sidebars or thumbed/framed right-floating images.)
• Template:blurb and Template:blurbclose (puts any content between them in a blue formatted box with rounded corners)

Wiki Reference

• Editing Help
• Magic Words & Variables

To Do

Needed Articles

• Wanted Pages (red links)
• Locations (New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Odessa, TX, Las Vegas, NV, Tokyo, Japan, Madras, India)
• The Graphic Novels (Graphic Novel:Monsters, Graphic Novel:The Crane, Graphic Novel:Trial By Fire, Graphic Novel:Aftermath)
• Category & articles for the actors, writers, and directors
• Assorted family members (Mom and pop Petrelli, Nathan's wife, Claire's mom and brother, D.L.'s mom, Matt's wife--some have "unofficial" names on IMDB which should be noted in Notes, i.e. "According to IMDB, Mrs. Bennet's first name is "Sandra".) Should not be used as article title because IMDB is not a canon source. Picture captions on NBC.com are probably okay (Janice Parkman, Angela Petrelli), although considering they made the claim that D.L. is Bennet's cleaner, maybe they shouldn't be.  :)

Articles Needing Images

• Category:Articles without images
• The Symbol (+ gallery) -- screencap all (major) occurrences
• Isaac's paintings (+ gallery) -- screencap all listed paintings
• Check all character and plot point articles for images. Add {{noimage}} as needed

Articles Needing Rewrites

• Wikipedia Reprints -- seems to be empty
• Stubs
• Standardise format on "Character History" section of main characters and significant supporting characters (i.e. those in the Index bar)
• Check verb tense (should all be present) & perspective (should maintain third person) on episodes and character histories
• Check to be sure all articles except Episodes and Graphic Novels have intro text with article title bolded.

About Style

• I like to keep any synopsis or descriptive sections of articles in the third person and in an in-world perspective (meaning no references to "we" the viewers, "in this episode", scenes, "after the commercial break", etc.) and to save any real-world information for notes, trivia, and theories sections and the like. This is a fairly standard convention at other fan wikis; the idea, basically, is that the bulk of the wiki should look like an extremely thorough, totally omniscient encyclopedia written by someone living in the world in which the series takes place. It also makes for less awkward language. Obviously, some references to episodes by name will be necessary for clarity, but when possible I like to keep these either parenthetical (i.e. citations) or structural (i.e. section titles).
• I also like to maintain a consistent present verb tense throughout the "encyclopediac" portions of articles unless the events being described actually happened in the future or the past relative to the point in time being discussed. For example, I'd say "Niki wakes up (present tense) to find that Linderman's thugs have been mutilated (past tense)." (Well, technically, the passive past perfect, but close enough). In this case, since Linderman's thugs have already been killed at this point in the episode, I'd use the past tense, but I wouldn't say "Peter woke up and painted a mustache on Simone's face" because it's confusing to use the past tense during a narrative—you lose track of what's happening at the moment. The present tense provides sequence and chronology to events. This will prove especially helpful in a series involving time travel, I'm guessing.
• The bottom line is that if I edit an article you've worked on for either of these two style concerns, please don't take offense. I am not wikistalking you and I have no problem with what you've written ... I'm just anal about consistency. In the long run, it may make us look more professional, and in the short run, it satisfies my Type A urges.