Talk:James Cromwell
Is this really relevent? This is the fleet wiki, not Memory Alpha. This wiki is primarily for info which will aide IC, but in character, Cromwell is not a person of any significence. - Salak 10:01, 5 Aug 2005 (CDT)
You present a valid point - its not really necessary for them to be in our library, I suppose, though I felt they at least deserved a mention. Perhaps it was enough to say who they played in the series - but I also feel like having the cast, as well as the characters they played, if they played multiple characters, can increase our database because of those characters. I probably wouldn't have known he was in any of the TNG episodes or the DS9 episodes he was on if I hadn't looked at his bio, and those characters can be added to our database either for use or for references on how that particular species may act towards human kind. If its not relevant, that's fine - the cast files can easily be removed, I'm sure.--Lt Pietro Maximoff 10:43, 5 Aug 2005 (CDT)
I think what we'd like is more a record of achievements for notable personnel in each posting (in our cases, Engineering). For example, and article on Cochrane would detail his development of the first Warp Drive and the Phoenix. However, such items as love life would not belong.
Let's take a more contemporary example. Say the character was Isambard Kingdom Brunel. An article on him would detail his achievements in Railways, bridges, steam ships, etc... yet his private life would not be as well documented. Also, would you really put much focus on an actor who might have played him in some obscure film over a hundred years after his death?
For Cochrane, we look the other way. Instead of being 100 years after, we're talking 60 years before. However, at the time of our simming, the movie First Contact will already be over 380 years old. Would many preople really know, or be interested in this person. Can you see James Cromwell appearing in sims?
If you can't, this belongs over on Memory Alpha (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page) where there is probably already an article.
But if you can see him being a person that may need to be referenced in simming as much as, let's say Geordi, then leave him.
A brief mention as a note at the bottom of the engineer characters page (say, a line or 2) would be more than enough I'd think, but it's probably best to check with Fleet Admiral Wolf if you're in doubt. - Lt. JG Salak 12:46, 5 Aug 2005 (CDT)