Feature talk:Deaths

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Thought this might be fun, just as a trivia sort of thing. I know there are many more than this but i've mostly limited myself to what articles we have so far. Feel free to add others, and to fill in any episode/date gaps. Also i'm not sure what to list as the affiliation and circumstances for a few of these. (The # column is eventually intended to be a chronological list — for example, i think Pastoll might be the first person in the series to die, so he'd be 001, Lappe is probably 002 or 003, and so on.)  ♥ kine @ 14:25, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, cool. One thing you could do in terms of those killed in action is to check their corresponding flagship page. I always add the date of destruction of the ship if its known - it usually is (Battle of Amritsar and all the preceding battles in the different systems is unknown with the exception of being October 796, though). Vympel 14:28, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, yeah, that'd work. I must admit i could have filled in a bit more than i have if i wanted, but i sort of got tired of it :x  ♥ kine @ 14:33, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Very cool. I like it. One suggestion--it's a bit number-heavy. Perhaps we could change the date format to something like "799 U.C. April 28?" Canary 21:04, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

I thought about that, but aside from the fact that the number format is more compact, i think the biggest problem is that you don't get fine-grained sorting that way. When you sort the tables, it goes alphabetically, so it'd be like April, December, February, &c. With the numbers you avoid that problem  ♥ kine @ 21:52, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

Ah. I see. One more thing I think might use some changing... "Circumstances" to "Cause of Death" (it's more "proper," I guess) and "In action" should have a verb--killed in action for deaths we see in battle, missing for those we don't. I dunno. Canary 21:00, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

That i can get behind. I think i had something else in mind with that column when i first started, but i don't remember what it was. Must not have been important! Changed as you asked  ♥ kine @ 02:50, 20 June 2011 (UTC)