Around the middle of the year, the administrators decided to contact PAWS about a Q&A. They accepted it, and now we are near the end of our personal selection. But now, we'd like to see your questions. Until Monday the 26th, we admins, are giving you the chance to ask YOUR questions. What would you like to ask?

As us admin's have agreed on this before, I think it's time to set up the monthly poll. So far, I'm thinking:

7/18 - Favourite Main Garfield Character

8/18 - Favourite Television Special

9/18 - Favourite "Garfield and Friends" Season

10/18 - Favourite "Garfield Show" Season

11/18 - Favourite "Garfield and Friends" Characters

12/18 - Favourite "Garfield Show" Characters

1/18 - Favourite Running Gag

2/18 - Favourite Garfield Love Interest

What does everyone (admins) think?

Where did these categories come from?  Did I miss out on something?

I have considered the following for pages being considered for deletion.

If a page clearly should be deleted, such as in cases of blatant vandalism, then it can be deleted upon notice, with no need to ask about it.

If it is less clear as to whether or not it should be deleted, then make it a candidate for deletion so that other admins- as well as other users- can provide a consensus on what to do with the page in question.

Admins, what do you think of this proposal?

I'd like to bring up the (supposed) need for trivia items dealing with the absence of a character- "X does not appear in this episode".

When, if ever, do we need such information in an article?  The only way I can see it is for someone who appears in the vast majority of the subject in question, thus minimizing the need for it.  With Garfield and Friends, for example, that would definitely be used for Garfield (I don't think there were any non-U.S. Acres moments where he was absent, but still...). Maybe Jon and Odie, I don't know how much percentage-wise they appeared throughout the show.  Then for U.S. Acres, probably just Orson (same as Garfield), Roy and Wade.

Of course, we may not even need to say that any character doesn't appear in an episode, since the character list will say everything about whether or not a character has anything to do with the episode. The trivia could be used for technical appearances, such as appearing exclusively in the title card, but even then it would not require mention of Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Production.

I'd like to know what others think about this.

I've noticed a few fairly new developments going on with the episode pages (I'm assuming these are experiments, considering the lack of announcement about them).  First, for the character list, there are now images for most, if not all, characters.  Second, there are also images for the goofs section, despite there already being a page for that.

I'd like to know what everyone else thinks about all this.

I've made this thread for those who would like to suggest new categories to be added to articles.

To start:

Television personalities - with many such characters having/getting their own pages, we might as well use this, no?

Due to some users (I won't name names) adding trivia and/or other info that does not seem worth mentioning on the wiki pages, I propose that we come up with a new rule to determine boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable info for pages.  This is so we don't have to deal with things like "The sky is blue in this episode" and "This is the second episode where Garfield waves with his left arm".

Also, I think we should set up a manual of style in order to have a consistent, encyclopedic format for writing pages.

There seems to be a controversy rising over how to categorize characters for episodes (i.e. "Main" vs. "Major" vs. "Minor").

I'm bringing this thread up to allow others to state their beliefs on how this matter should be handled.

I've been looking at certain episode pages on the wiki and most seem uncomplete. I suggest we take the time to polish the pages by adding new plots, infoboxes and maybe even a gallery. What do you think?

This is the place to discuss apparent "who's who" in voicing anything in Garfield material that is currently undecided (live actors may be involved as well, though obviously not as much as voice actors).  It is not "who do you want to see in Garfield" (for that, you can create your own discussion about it in the appropriate place).

This will likely focus on English voice actors, though international ones may be brought up as well, provided that the other criteria is met (and that the language in question is mentiioned).  Whether or not to include international VAs has yet to be determined.  Same with commercial announcers, although poll results for that look good thus far.

Here's what I've got (which will be updated as needed):

• Dog from the vet in Garfield: The Movie ("Does anyone know this guy?") - sounds like Billy West (Looney Tunes, Doug, Ren and Stimpy, Futurama, Honey Nut Cheerios commercials), and this has even been listed in some places online, but no listing in the credits confirm this (or anyone else, for that matter).

• Announcer for this Nickelodeon promo for Garfield and Friends (note the bumper right before it having the same voice) - this one is a different case; I've heard that voice on other commercials for Nickelodeon (among other things), but I have yet to idenify who is involved.  So once I've done that, then we should be able to tell who it is.
• Abigail (The Garfield Show) - http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Abigail#comm-19849
• Announcer from Garfield and Friends episode Binky Gets Cancelled Again! ("And now the evening news with Binky the Clown") - perhaps Lee Mendelson?

Recently I have noticed, that two articles tend to have their contents modified frequently:

- Nermal http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Nermal?action=history

- Arlene http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Arlene?action=history

and many of those recent changes revolve around the conflict between canon and personal feelings towards characters. Thus I am asking all the active Garfield Wiki users to vote in comments below this thread, how do they want to have Arlene and Nermal presented:

- as they appear in comics and cartoons (as Jonisthebest modified aforesaid articles) ;

- or through individual sentiments (as Abdullahi95 is writing) ?

Please treat this message as help in maintaining our Wiki.

I believe the Garfield Wiki has pages for all the official actors and voice actors (but not all performers) currently known (including those uncredited). One possible exception is for commercial announcers- the ones who appear in ads for merchandise, promotional tie-ins, and promos for specials/shows/films. I say "possible" because I'm not quite sure if they deserve pages here or not.

Examples include George Lowe (in a promo for Cartoon Network), Robbie Rist (in a promo for CBS Kids), and Bill St. James (in the Garfield Video Collection Preview). Not included here are those announcers who have also done work for regular features (e.g. Frank Welker).

Do you think they should count as voice actors involved with the Garfield franchise? Why or why not?

On several occasions in Garfield media, especially in Garfield and Friends, non-original (and, more often than not, public domain) music has been featured. Examples include In the Hall of the Mountain King, which is used as the theme for Orson's brothers in the U.S. Acres episodes, and Dance of the Hours, whose melody was used for the opera episode.

Do you think there should be a page listing such songs and detailing when and where they appear in Garfield media? I've figured it would be useful, but I'd also like to hear from others about this, and furthermore why you think it would or would not be a good idea.

If you have any ideas for improving or otherwise changing the layout of this wiki, you can post them here to see.

Examples include:

- Writing styles for articles

- Visual appearances (e.g. background, menus, templates)

- Anything to add/delete from the wiki

Nicholas Blaschke keeps adding the word VHS as a category of category about an episode of The Garfield Show, it happens a lot. Please make him stop?

I've edited the Stub, NeedsImage, Underconstruction, and Delete templates so that they take up less space, as suggested earlier.  Don't know if the new versions should be considered fully satisfactory yet, but still.

I've noticed certain users on this Wiki upload images without placing them in proper category. Examples are here:

- http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/File:.028_Garfield_Odie_Nermal_Squeak_%26_Zachary.png

- http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/File:.028_Garfield_Odie_Jon_Squeak_%26_Zachary.jpg

- http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/File:.028_Garfield_Odie_%26_Zachary_28_24_28_25.png

- http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/File:.028_Garfield_Odie_%26_Zachary_28_24_28_22.jpg

- http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/File:.028_Garfield_Odie_%26_Zachary_28_24_25_28.jpg

- more examples are here http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Zachary_Murray

Apart from uncertain source of those pictures and naming them in a way close to copyright infringement, posting those randomly without proper location doesn't make our Wiki look organized.

We may need to refresh our policy of pictures http://garfield.wikia.com/wiki/Garfield_Wiki:Rules#Pictures to avoid such mess in images part.