Dunan suggested that the Richard Smallhorn article be renamed to "Richard the Great."

There is some inconsistency on how character articles are titled. For example, we have John Trent (instead of "Sheppard") as the article title. On the other hand we have ShadowChild (insted of "Bianca Cavaleri" as the article title). So there's an inconsistency in whether we use the common name or the character's real name.

On this matter, I think we should use the more commonly known name, even if it's not the "real name" of the character. Using obscure real names like "Richard Smallhorn" may confuse people.

This is the policy on wikipedia, which states that:

• "The name used most often to refer to a person in reliable sources is generally the one that should be used as the article title, even if it is not the person's "real" name" (Wikipedia Manual of Style)
• Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hammer

Note that if we adopt this policy on a broad scale, we would need a number of changes (e.g., Peter Wortmuller, Theodore Zenga, Pavel Hubnik, Danny Brewer).

I found a very interesting article on the subject of cancelled Deus Ex games and I wondered if any of these unfinished games would be worth writing up about. Here is the link -http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-16-ion-storms-lost-deus-ex-sequels

A while ago, I suggest to Sugarhoney a mini-project (which he approved) of revising the "birthdate" fields of characters whose birthdates are derived from age. The issue was that many characters are given birthdates derived from their age listed in an official charater profile. For example, someone who is age 20 on June 1, 2030, could have been born anywhere between June 2, 2009, and June 1, 2010. However, as it is right now, a typical character infobox would simply list "2010" in this case, which is not necessarily canon.

Although this project been on the back burner, I haven't forgotten about it.

I've surveyed all the characters that are implicated. Below is a compilation of which characters have specifically known birthdates and which characters do not.

Category 1: Characters whose birthdates are known to the specific year

Hugh Darrow - 1973 (Official timeline)
David Sarif - 1970 (by being age 57 in DXHR and age 58 in DXMD)
Yelena Federova - 2001 (specifically stated in official bio)
Zeke Sanders - 1990 (specifically stated in a profile image)
Viktor Marchenko - 1991 (stated in pocket secretary)
Megan Reed - 1995 (Sarif datafile)
Francis Pritchard - 1991 (Sarif datafile)
Athene Margoulis - 1970 (Sarif datafile)
Adam Jensen - well known
Masaaki Oshiro - Info panel in Blade Plaza
Ashani Talwar - Info panel in Blade Plaza

Category 2: Characters whose birthdates can only be approximated (to a range of 2 years) by the character's age

Age listed in DXHR official character bios
- Faridah Malik
- Jaron Namir
- Lawrence Barrett
- William Taggart
- Isaias Sandoval
- Tong Si Hung
- Zhao Yun Ru
- Wayne Haas
- Bob Page

Age listed in DXMD bios
- Alex Vega
- Delara Auzenne
- Elias Chikane
- ShadowChild
- Hector Guerrero
- Frederick Flossy
- Talos Rucker
- Vaclav Koller
- Jim Miller

Age listed in DXU: Children's Crusade Bios
- Duncan MacReady
- Daniel Fletcher
- Peter Chang
- Elias Chikane

Age listed in in-game profiles
- Arun Singh
- John Trent

The Birthdate Information Project

As discussed in the post on Sugarhoney's wall, the birthdate for the second category above will be converted into a year range, together with a note on the character's age, e.g., "1992-93 (age 36 in A Criminal past)".

(As an aisde, I think listing a character's age is more directly useful to most readers, as it avoids having to do mental math to find out how old a character is. This is probably why most characters are only given an age, rather than a birthdate.)

The Timeline poses an issue because you can't list an entry for a date range. Thus, for the timeline, I think the best approach is to list the birthdate on the simple-subtraction birthdate year, and then add a note saying that the character may have been born on this or the previous year. For the format of this note, I think a mouse-over tooltip over the word "born" would be the least intrusive method. The alternative is something like a "[note 1]" superscript, but this might not looks as clean. 

Any suggestions are welcome. If there are no comments (or objections), then I will go ahead and implement this by the upcoming weekend (around December 16-17, 2017).

Many articles on this Wiki have images whose captions end in a period even when the caption is a short description or is a sentence fragment. However, most modern publication styles do not use captions in such situations.

For example, Wikipedia's manual of style states that:

• "Most captions are not complete sentences, but merely sentence fragments, which should not end with a period. If any complete sentence occurs in a caption, then all sentences, and any sentence fragments, in that caption should end with a period."
  • "The Conservatory during Macquarie Night Lights, a summer festival" (no final period), but
  • "The Conservatory during Macquarie Night Lights. The Conservatory was spotlit for the occasion." (final period for complete sentence and another to conclude the preceding sentence fragment)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Captions#Formatting_and_punctuation

That is, according to the above style widely used in Wikipedia, periods are used only if there is a complete sentence, or if there are multiple separate sentence fragments.

So, I suggest we adopt the above style guideline for purposes of consistency.

At the moment, we have a large variety of headings for character pages.

Category 1: "Background" is the lead heading

• "Background" is the entire biography: Francis Pritchard, Tracer Tong, Ben Saxon, Masaaki Oshiro
• "Background" followed by a [game name] heading: Lubos, Viktor Marchenko
• "Background" followed by a story-related heading: Janus

Category 2: "Biography" is the lead heading

• "Biography" is the entire biography (the most common type): Jim Miller
• "Biography" followed by a [game name] heading: Delara Auzenne
• "Biography" followed by a story-related heading: (no example at the moment, but I believe we had these)

Category 3: Other

• [Game Name] is the lead heading: Radich Nikoladze, Tibor Sokol, Nosey
• No heading: Richard

So there's a pretty good variety here, and I think we should make an effort to standardize. What's interesting is that different people tend to write aritcles under different heading styles, but editors rarely impose their own heading style on existing articles. I know we have guidelines, but the guidelines only state that "As a guideline on how to lay out article pages, a possible format is..."

I think stronger guidance on article layout would be beneficial.

Personally, I'm ok with "biography" in general. If "biography" is used, I think headings like [game name] should be under "biography" and not following "biography", becuase the content in [game name] are also part of the person's biography.

In a way, "biography" isn't ideal in that some minor characters that don't have enough information for a "biography," and the article would then run afoul of the common understanding of "biography" as "a detailed description of a person's life" (as defined on Wikipedia). But I guess in a video gaming context, a "biography" can be much more informal.

Here's a quick survey of other Wikis:

• Elder Scrolls Wiki: "Background" followed by "Interactions" (style guide)
• Fallout Wiki: "Background" followed by "Interactions with the Player Character" (style guide)
• Dragon Age Wiki: "Background" followed by "Involvement"
• Mass Effect Wiki: "[Game Name]" is the typical lead heading, but some articles have a "Background" for characters with histories prior to the games
• Grand Theft Auto Wiki: "History" is the main section, with subheadings "Background" and "Events of [Game]" (style guide)
• Bioshock Wiki: "History" is the first section, then followed by "[Game Name]"
• Assassin's Creed Wiki: "Biography" is the main heading
• Metal Gear Solid Wiki: "Biography" is the main heading

Anyone think we should use Čistá District instead of Čistá Čtvrť as the main term for the district?

I think the term Čtvrť might be too cumbersome for most English speakers to be used on an English-language wiki. Plus, the other two districts in Northern Prague are already named using the term "District." 

Čistá District is also used in the game, to some extent (see http://imgur.com/a/DCvax). In this example, "district" should be capitalized, since "District" is part of the proper name.