Talk:Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update

Drunk Girl
Hey, Jacqui, would you mind if we deleted one of the Drunk Girl pics? One of them is protruding into Fericito's listing now that they've been merged.


 * Whatever works. I'll play with them now and see if there's a way I can make them both fit, but if not, which do you think we should keep? I think the first is clearer, but the second is funnier. Jacqui ★ 04:50, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Some updates needed
I can think of two immediately that are not on here: Snooki and Stefon. If no one adds anything in a week's time, I'll do so myself. --A Gooner (talk) 20:12, 10 July 2010 (UTC)

Order! Order in the court!
Are the listings supposed to be in some kind of order? If so, can the intro state what order? If not, could they be? --Kgf0 23:41, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, you're right... I can't tell what order they're in, if any. They should get in an order, or have the order clarified. I was thinking, however, that the characters that have their own articles should not have links in the header space with nothing underneath. It's a bit obnoxious to look at. So I do think some sort of redesign is in order... though I'm not sure how. Jacqui ★ 00:50, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * Yes, sorry about that. It looks like it has been clarified by someone else; they are in chronological order. Leadpipevigilante 10:44, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Can't they be in ABC order?

Do we need main articles?
I originally set this page up with links to full articles on the more popular characters, but since then I've realized that those articles aren't all that big, and wouldn't make this list too unmanageable if we just merged them (thanks by the way to Silence for making the article more awesome). Leadpipevigilante 10:44, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. Wikiprecedent for things like List of Dragon Ball characters, and some discussion on a related AFD, agree as well: it's good to merge a bunch of small related articles on semi-notable subjects, like this, into a main article. If a character is so notable as to deserve a big article, give them one and link from here to a main article (should be very few characters if any, but I don't watch enough SNL to know how many or who). --DDerby- (talk)  05:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Episodes lists subsection
I just realized that it's probably more relevant to note the anchor of Weekend Update at the time of each episode instead of the host (seeing as the host rarely appears on Update, and the anchors often interact with the correspondents). I used that format with Jacob Silj, which I just added. Leadpipevigilante 11:20, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

Hollywood Minute additions
I felt it would be plain wrong not to include the classic "schooling" of David Spade by Steve Martin, the event which seemed to bring an end to the Hollywood Minute segment. I added a paragraph describing the event. 68.147.54.71 03:04, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

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Revamping lists of recurring sketches/characters
In an effort to address the massive disarray and random formatting of Wikipedia's coverage of recurring SNL sketches, I've begun an effort to merge the various lists and pages into a single list of recurring sketches, split by their year of introduction (i.e., beginning with Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1975-1976). The content of the following pages would be merged:


 * List of Saturday Night Live musical sketches
 * Saturday Night Live animal sketches
 * Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1970s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1980s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 1990s
 * Saturday Night Live TV show sketches of the 2000s

Among the issues that would be resolved are a) there would be a logical place for information about every SNL recurring sketch, instead of randomly highlighting those that happen to be about animals, music, or TV parodies; and b) it would be tremendously helpful in cleaning up the vast number of recurring-sketch redirects that currently go to pages that don't have any actual information about that sketch, because under the new format, we would know, based on the sketch's date of introduction, where information about that sketch would be located.

I have begun drafting these new pages in my userspace; the first is at User:Theoldsparkle/snl1 and they go sequentially from there (up to 10 right now). I would ask that any comments be centralized at User talk:Theoldsparkle/snl1. Theoldsparkle (talk) 22:14, 22 November 2011 (UTC)