There are some follow up questions/decisions stemming from the recently passed Forum:CT:Actors by role categories.
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Audiobook narrators in a characters BTS
The CT established that audiobook narrators that perform unique voices for a character during their normal narration of a book are applicable for the Actors by role categories. So it begs the question does their performance of the character warrant mentions in the characters BTS section? Doing this could affect some currently statused articles.
Some major characters like Yoda, in pretty much every audiobook in which he talks, the narrator will perform some version of a "Yoda" voice. So it would result in a large addition to the BTS basically listing the narrators of various audiobooks. However for some other characters like Thrawn there is a good argument for including the this kind of information in the BTS because Marc Thompson (who has narrated over 90 Star Wars Audiobooks) uses a very specific voice just for Thrawn. And Marc has two unique variations of his Thrawn voice; one for Legends and one for Canon audiobooks.
Puppeteers applicable for Actors by role categories
It's pretty clear that a Performance Artists that physically portray a creature or droid like Rob Ramsdell should count for these categories. But it is a little unclear if this applies to puppeteers. A good example of this Din Grogu, who had a whole team of puppeteers controlling various parts of the puppet. Should all of them be included in a Category:Actors who have portrayed Din Grogu category?
PortrayedByCat
Should we create a PortrayedBy template similar to Template:Mediacat that will link to the "Actors who have portrayed" categories. If so should it be added right under the BTS header or somewhere else?
Non English subcategory
If an artist voiced a character in a dub or otherwise non-english media, and has an article should they go into the "Actors who have portrayed" category or should we create a sub cat for "Actors who have portrayed X in non-english media" A good example of this would be the German-language audiodramas such as Heir to the Empire (German audio drama) in which Hans-Georg Panczak voiced Luke. Should Hans go in Category:Actors who have portrayed Luke Skywalker or in a new Category:Actors who have portrayed Luke Skywalker (non-english). The exact name of such a sub category is also an open question.
ThePedantry (talk) 22:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)