Thread:Project:Support desk/Need guidance on overarching structure for episode guides. Categories per cast member?

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Does anyone have any guidance on overarching structure for episode guides, like for a TV series or comic strip? Or perhaps a pointer to a wiki in the wild that already does this?

My initial idea was an issue list page, and pages for each issue.

Then I thought maybe I should get a little more granular and have a page for each strip, with each issue transcluding the strips for that issue.

Then the question arose of how to structure the cast of characters. Character A and B might star in strip 1, but characters B and C star in strip 2. I received a suggestion of making each cast member a Category, putting each strip into multiple categories based on the multiple characters that appear within, but I didn't know if this is considered unkosher. To a MediaWiki neophyte, the concept seemed odd having this in lieu of, or in parallel with, a page for each cast member.

Is there an established best practice here?