Forum:Real-world persons

As predicted, the creation of Victor Dorantes inspired various other real-world person articles, such as Andrew Barton, Josh Bender, and Brandon Rhea (who also created Wayne Lipman III). Of course, this is no problem, however, as I discussed with my cabal ;), I would only support such a measure only under two conditions. However, since I have thought of two more conditions as well. (Also, the fact that Drewton made two real world articles of voice actors before I made my article was coincidence) Don't think I would do this myself without restrictions. ;)

Number one, any and all real-world person articles are to be short and concise, with four key elements. An infobox, an introduction that does not become ridiculous in length but does note all information the author wants others to know about him/her, a list of works (novels, books, whatever), and last but not least, a properly formatted link to the author's user page here on ''Star Wars Fanon. Oh yeah, and you must have permission from a person to make an article about them, and must of course respect any restrictions they apply if allowed to create an article, too.

Number two, any and all real-world person articles must adhere to the standards in condition number one and none must go beyond this; no biography, no personality and traits, no talents and abilities, none of that jargon. An article on me was not created for the purpose of gloating, rather for the purpose of encyclopedic linking; linking to an article written by "User:Squishy Vic" was stupid since it takes away from the articles, like  Knighthood for example, from feeling and looking like a legitimate real article about a real novel, since that is what it is. I also wouldn't want the mess from Brandon Rhea caused awhile back by the Darthipedia cabal. Basically, no long articles, and no possibility of becoming a GA/FA whatsoever allowed.

Number three, the point of these real-world person articles are to treat them as real person articles, not as another piece of fanon in your collection. You can of course still keep hold of the article with your "articles by" category, although you may not link to this article anywhere else other than the mainspace and the mainspace talk pages, or where properly needed. In community discussions, your signature, GAN, etc, your username (and its link) should still be used, not replaced by the real world article. Do not add in your real world person article into your signature and treat it as a user page.

Lastly, number four, you may only create such an article if you are willing to reveal your real name (or a proper, full pen name could also work. Like 'Alan Smithee', while something like your username would be the same as what follows in the next sentence, therefore redundant). Say Arav the Undersith wants to create such an article, he may not unless he gives his real name, because, reversely, creating a real person article under the title "Arav" or "Arav the Undersith" or "Solus" or whatever takes away from the real purpose and feeling of that article, since it would give nothing real about that person.

Basically that's it. I like this idea since we can all create encyclopedic articles of real people including ourselves, while keeping it realistic without making it a user page or using it as a userpage (in linking, nomination, whatever). This is just a vote to approve these four conditions into the Manual of Style, to restrict real person articles per above. By the way, since there are no measures stopping the creation of real-world persons, then that is not an issue; the issue is above. --Victortalk 06:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) --Victortalk 06:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
Here is where you may propose alternatives to the proposal above. This would mean, for example, creating a section to support excluding condition one, while keeping two, three and four around, or something. Or, you can just talk about this here entirely. --Victortalk 06:06, 2 December 2008 (UTC)