Talk:Unnamed civilians

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[edit] Source request

I'm pretty sure the characters played by these actors didn't exist, and were "credit only" cases:

1. Michael Karawia in "Day 5 12:00pm-1:00pm"
2. Jay Harik in "Day 4 7:00pm-8:00pm".

When I went through those months back, making entries for unnamed characters, I found no evidence these fellows existed. Comp25 do you have a IU timestamp or DVD playback time when these guys appeared? If they didn't exist, we don't make entries for them and simply put (credit only) in the Dramatis Personae list. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 22:33, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Entry titles

These entries for unnamed characters have been created with descriptive titles, and do not necessarily have to be letter-for-letter transcriptions of the characters as they were credited in the Co-star list. A handful of characters are listed as such but certainly not all can be, since many titles would overlap and it would be impossible to link directly to some of them (for example, if there were two different characters credited simply as "Agent" in day 2 and in day 4, the link to Unnamed CTU agents#Agent would always take you to the Day 2 agent because he is first). For this reason I reverted "Woman at Convenience Store" back to "Cigarette shopper".

Additionally, to change all these characters' entries to their credited titles would, besides making some linkages impossible, necessitate going back to each time the character is linked and changing the links. This is too many steps backward in my opinion. – Blue Rook 18:33, 6 September 2008 (UTC)_talkcontribs

[edit] Sangalan villagers

I don't know if this entry will work the way I did it, but I thought that due to the video quality, it would be pretty hard to match each actor to its respective villager. If it's not ok this way, then it could be split for each villager, although assigning each one a picture would then be a problem. I also tried to maintain the structure of the image so people could see it's a TV image, but if it's better to crop each one, then it can be done. Thief12 12:53, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

It's not ideal but I personally can't think of a better option either. It would be great if we could identify these actors but until that happens I like this approach. I think I will arrange the images horizontally though. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 13:36, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

These actors were really credited?? --proudhug 01:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Yep. Thief12 03:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Weird.

I'm really against them being included on this page, however. We can't identify who is who and so they're all grouped into one entry, which disrupts the flow of the page and looks hideous. Since we can't verify who matches up with which picture, I don't consider this any different than unidentified credited characters like "Sam's Partner." Anyone agree? --proudhug 04:29, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Haven't we covered our bases though by including them all? Blue Rook  talk  contribs 05:02, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Proudhug if you're still against these being listed here, I have something of a compromise in mind. Otherwise they can just stick around mb. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 16:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Explain. --proudhug 00:23, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

We make a page called Unnamed civilians/Sangalan villagers where the images and actors get collected, and link it where the right-hand-side image would normally be for a single character entry. This way it isn't ugly, and we develop a precedent for similar situations in the future. It can always be reverted to 5 regular entries if, some day, we figure out who is who. Blue Rook  talk  contribs 15:55, 29 April 2009 (UTC)