Template talk:Character box

Death Date

I'm trying to get the character box to show a death date, but it's not appearing. (I mostly want to show that Mr. Petrelli died on April 25). Can someone help me? Ryangibsonstewart 15:31, 28 November 2006 (EST)

Try it now. (Admin 15:36, 28 November 2006 (EST))

Thanks you're brilliant! (Plus, I loved the "living impaired"!) Ryangibsonstewart 15:42, 28 November 2006 (EST)

"Last Appearance" issue

We have a problem. Jackie died in Homecoming, but was actually last seen in Six Months Ago. I'm changing her infobox to "Six Months Ago", because that is literally when she 'last appeared'. ---- 21:03, 28 November 2006 (EST)

• Agreed. That spot should be reserved for the last episode in which the character appeared. There is a death date spot in the template now, and that's where the death info should be... Ryangibsonstewart 23:02, 28 November 2006 (EST)
  • I tend to think we should avoid the "last appearance" altogether for now. As we've seen with Jackie and Chandra, mere death does not guarantee they won't keep showing up.--Hardvice (talk) 23:05, 28 November 2006 (EST)
    • I agree entirely. I originally eliminated the "number of episodes" field a while back for a similar reason. It requires a lot of maintenance, provides very little useful information, and in this instance can be misleading. Besides with the per-episode character histories it's somewhat redundant since you could just look for the most recent history. (Admin 23:12, 28 November 2006 (EST))
      • What happens if we just pull it from the template? Will it automatically eat any extraneous variables fed to the template call?--Hardvice (talk) 23:18, 28 November 2006 (EST)
        • I believe so. Try it out. What's the worst that happens, you have to revert? :) (Admin 23:26, 28 November 2006 (EST))