Talk:List of past Casualty characters

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Merge?
I'm proposing that this page is merged with Characters of Casualty to form one article similar to Characters of Holby City. The HC page includes both past and present characters, who do not (yet) have their own articles. The merge would eliminate the need to move a character every time they return or depart, thus preventing the breakage of redirects. It is also more accessible, with characters listed in alphabetical order. The HC page appears to cover far more past and recurring characters, so a merge could encourage editors to add sections for those that are missing. I'd certainly help out there. Thoughts? - JuneGloom07    Talk  18:59, 23 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Pinging a few of the subject's regular editors. Please alert anyone else you can think of to this discussion. - JuneGloom07    Talk  20:30, 24 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Strongly agree – a very good idea . At the moment, the two separate articles are a lot of work to maintain. I find the whole idea of having to copy and paste a character's profile once they have departed to this page a pain. If these were merged, I would definitely be willing to help out and maintain the article. Furthermore, merging these pages together might help with the current issues outlined on this page (the excessively detailed plot summaries especially!). not sure how active the user is, but worth a ping! ElectrodeandtheAnode (talk) 21:15, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree - I think this is a sensible idea. Like you stated it creates less problems having it all in one place. The Holby City list is a good example of how it can work. Rain  the 1  21:50, 24 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Agree - To reiterate everything already said, I believe it would be a good idea as it would create less issues and would save constant change in redirects. I was actually wondering about this issue the other day. I started a while ago a draft for List of Casualty characters (series 29) and would really like to (at some point) expand it into articles for each series. Finding information may be a struggle, but it could be worth while. For now, a merge would be fantastic, but this could be something to consider further down the line. Soaper1234 (talk) 11:10, 25 July 2016 (UTC)

Now we have reached a mutual decision, would it be ok if I started merging the pages? Soaper1234 (talk) 09:54, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I think we should wait a few more days in case there are other editors who want to comment. And I think we'll need an admin to merge the pages, so the history is kept intact. - JuneGloom07    Talk  13:55, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah yes, my apologies. Soaper1234 (talk) 10:59, 28 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Support merge. Seems like a sensible idea. Oh and I don't think a history merge is needed, just use the merged from template, as has already been used on this page (you can specify a diff), and an appropriate edit summary when actually performing the merge. anemone  projectors  02:04, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Just before the merge takes place, I just want to bring up the issue of infoboxes on the page. The Holby City article does not use them, neither do the majority of similar featured lists/articles, so I think the Casualty page should do away with them. If not, then they should all be changed to Infobox character at the very least. As long-term Holby contributor User:Frickative put it: "Infobox soap character 2 is tailored to EastEnders and Coronation Street-esque soaps, where intricate family details would overwhelm an infobox with just a |family= parameter. Casualty is primarily a medical drama, and while some storylines do involve the families of staff members, they're not the programme's predominant theme." - JuneGloom07    Talk  19:15, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I used to use the soap character infobox for characters that were in dramas and series. I did it out of habit because it was what I was used to. Perhaps that is what has happened here. There is no benefit of it really and these days I wholly agree with the statement Frickative put. So I agree with this change too. My preference is that they are not used but not an issue if the standard character one is chosen. Rain  the 1  01:52, 7 August 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm in agreement with that they should be removed. I changed them to infobox 2 a while ago because I thought that was being rolled out across the whole board rather than the soaps and not dramas, but having discovered that, I'd be happy with no infoboxes in such an article, with characters only recieving one when they recieve an official article. Soaper1234 (talk) 19:26, 7 August 2016 (UTC)