Talk:Arrow season 7

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I've linked the character links with their redirect, instead of a direct link to the comic book character for two main reasons. The first, is that it follows

I agree with your suggestion, since TV versions of comics characters end up becoming too different. That's why I redirected

Zari Tomaz to List of Legends of Tomorrow characters since she is substantially different from DC Comics' Isis, on who she was reportedly based. --Kailash29792 (talk) 09:39, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply

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I would also agree. This is a season article, not an overview of the show as a whole. The links should be to the characters from the actual show, be that their own articles, or List of Arrow characters with appropriate #. If users wish to follow links from there to any comic book counterparts, they can. The characters in the show are not the same as those in the comics. AutumnKing (talk) 10:15, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree: If you are saying that these characters are not related to their comic counterparts, then is there really a need to link them at all? There is already a link to the character page at the top of the section. People can scroll from there all the same as they please. Also, your method is then inconsistent with the recurring and guest lists, which link to the individual character pages as they should. Dhalh (talk) 19:28, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Context is the key. If you are saying "Oliver Queen is based on the character Green Arrow" then linking "Green Arrow" to the comic book article is appropriate, but if you say "Stephen Amell plays Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow" then linking to the television character article is appropriate. Regarding the other characters in the guest section, you are more than welcome to create new redirects and fix those. --Gonnym (talk) 20:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You’re not really understanding what I’m saying. The guest list is fine, you are suggesting to make the main list unharmonius with the rest of the section. Additionally, relying on the cast page as it is to convey information is problematic in itself considering what a mess it is. If you would like to clean that page up and bring it to some kind of standard, be my guest. Until then, no dice. Dhalh (talk) 21:54, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The guest section can changed to have the same linking style as the main characters. If you have a problem with the list of characters article then you can fix them, not relevant to this issue regardless. We don't need your dice for a consensus. Matt14451 (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Gonnym's suggestion. It makes more sense to redirect to Arrowverse characters as the characters in the show are not the same as those in the comics. — Lbtocth^talk 11:54, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support: it's far more useful and appropriate to link to specific Arrowverse character articles (if they exist) or redirects for these particular incarnations of the characters given that those redirects, as mentioned by Gonnym and others, can be properly targets to the appropriate sections of the characters' "main incarnations" articles. That's what

I always thought that an actor needs to appear in at least four episodes in a season to be called "recurring". Virgil (Christopher Gerard), Alena Whitlock (Kacey Rohl), Sergeant Bingsley (Danny Wattley) and Kevin Dale (Raj Paul) have all appeared in four episodes, yet they are billed under "guest" while Dante (Adrian Paul) is billed under "recurring" despite only three appearances. What to do? --Kailash29792 (talk) 08:57, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Per

MOS:TVCAST, someone who appears in multiple episodes is not automatically recurring. You need a reliable source saying they are recurring. Adrian Paul (Dante) has one, the others don't. The Ozzy Mandias (talk) 09:36, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply

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