The Wiki Channel Wiki:Guide/Actors

This page is an instructional page telling you how to make an actor on the wiki.

Procedure

 * 1) To make an actor, first please go to the Actors board. Start a new thread and title it, "Actor: (Actor's Name)."
 * 2) Inside the thread please fill out this form
 * 3) *Name: (the actor's name)
 * 4) *Gender: (their gender)
 * 5) *Birthday and Age: (their birthday and age)
 * 6) *Description: (description of them)
 * 7) *Look-A-Like: (celebrity look-a-like)
 * 8) From there, wait until an admin checks it over and approves the actor.
 * 9) Once approved, please make a page for your actor (see next section for details).
 * 10) After you've made actor page you must add your actor to the list of actors page.
 * 11) Then you can start to try get your actor a role in different series! Try to get them a recurring role on a show, guest starring, or main role!

Actor Criteria
The following tells what will get your actor approved.
 * Your actor should be original. Please give them a descriptive description.
 * The look-a-like cannot currently be in use (unless you are making a twin of some sort).
 * Your actor type should not be too common on the wiki (ex: a common history, a common age, etc.)

Rules

 * Celebrity look-a-likes can only be used once by one actor (unless you are making a twin).
 * Your actor must be approved before you make one.
 * Each user can only have 7 actors (boys) and 7 actresses (girls).

Actor pages
Your page should have an Actor Infobox and these following headers. You can also add any other header you wish to have
 * Early Life
 * Career
 * Personal Life
 * Filmography
 * Discography (if needed)
 * Trivia (if needed)

Departing actors
Sometimes, we may want to get rid of our actors for whatever reason. There are multiple ways of how you can get rid of your actor. Here they are:

Adoption
The first option is that you can set your actor up for adoption for another user to adopt them as their own. Here a few rules for putting actors up for adoption:
 * Once you put your actor up for adoption, you are no longer responsible for them.
 * The actor cannot receive any more acting jobs than it already has while it's up for adoption because the actor is manager-less.
 * If an actor currently is not working on any Wiki Channel projects (Ex: isn't on a show) and is manager-less for two months, they will have to leave Wiki Channel.
 * You cannot have more than 3 actors up for adoption (this is to limit the amount of actors up for adoption on the wiki since adoption may not be too common).

Here is a template that goes on the pages of actors who need a manager/are up for adoption:

The template is called "Adoption."

Leaving Wiki Channel
Some users may not want their actors to continue on the channel, they just want to get rid of them. In this case, the actor should simply leave Wiki Channel. Whenever a user just doesn't want their actor here anymore, they just put this template on their page:

The template is called "Left." This could apply to many actors, for example, actors who are apart of ended shows. For example, after Kitty Couture ends, if Lisha Jane wants to go on to different things outside of Wiki Channel, then her manager, NYCgleek, would put this template on her page. Here are some rules regarding making your actors leave Wiki Channel.
 * Once an actor leaves Wiki Channel, they cannot participate in any upcoming projects.
 * Actors who left cannot be adopted. If someone wants to adopt them, they'll have to ask the user who created the actor to put them up for adoption.
 * You cannot make your actor leave Wiki Channel when they're in the middle of a show or movie. You'll have to talk to the show/movie creator and work out something before you make them go.
 * Once actors leave Wiki Channel, their look-a-likes are now free for use of another actor.

Deletion
This is the third way to get rid of an actor. All you do is simply get the actor's page deleted and pretend as if they never existed. This way is very useful for actors who have been, well, useless. For example, if you made an actor named Hannah Carson. Let's say you have had her for two months, but she doesn't get any jobs on or with Wiki Channel. In this case, you might want to get rid of her. Why keep her page and say she left the Wiki Channel when she was never even on it? Another example would be if you made an actor but suddenly realized you no longer wanted to use them. So this way basically applies to those who just want to scrap their actors. Here are the rules for this:
 * You must request for the actor to be deleted on the Actors board.
 * You cannot delete an actor who is currently taking part or took part in a major project with/on Wiki Channel. You must either make them leave Wiki Channel or set them up for adoption.

So these are the ways you can get rid of your actors on Wiki Channel.