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What is that button supposed to lead to?
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Creator pages, mostly. It's an alternative to, for example, clicking over to Characters to find out who voiced what, but it also allows for cross-referencing directors of photography, score-writers for films or animations or whatever, and even things like costume design. Example: just about every Warner Bros animation C&C page would have Andrea Romano for her voice casting.
People might be interested in seeing creator pages for people like her, and - if you gals/guys were interested - would actually provide you a platform to compete with IMDB and draw some traffic from them (+ad revenue).
Is that really something we need to do, though?
Need? I mean, nothing -needs- to be done. But there's more to our favorite media than just the director(s) and the VA's. I'd like to be able to look at a movie with beautiful visuals, such as Blade Runner ('82) and see what else the cinematographer did. Del Toro of course directed Pan's Labyrinth, but it was Guillermo Navarro who shot the thing - and he also shot Night at the Museum. In my mind, considering how we cross-reference things here, I think it creates another cool way at looking at these productions. I understand if others might disagree.
This is more of a "TV Tropes 2.0" thing, where we hope to be able to document the relationships between articles more directly. For example, you could add a relationship like, "X is an actor in Y", and then be able to cross-reference those links automatically. It's a long way out and is not one of our major priorities at the moment.
From the perspective of the current wiki, "cast and crew" is not our focus. We care about tropes. Let other resources like IMDB handle all of that.
Edited by Fighteer "It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Understood and thanks for the follow-up!
At the top of the (Wiki) pages are a bunch of useful little buttons. Why is there not a button for Cast & Crew? I envision it divided into two primary folders - one for "Current" and one for "Former" in the case of a film in Development Hell or a band that changes their lineup. Is this something that would be doable?
Edited by GoGoGodzilla