Talk:Penny (The Big Bang Theory)

New TBBT character articles

I'm in the midst of creating the new articles for the main TBBT characters, as was discussed briefly on the "List of TBBT characters" talk page previously. I have a limited time to work with at the moment, and after my edits there are still a lot of cite errors on the new articles due to cites not being complete (as they were simply copied from the original article). I will continue to fix these issues later today into tomorrow, but in the meantime welcome all other users to assist in the transition.

The original article, List of characters in The Big Bang Theory, can either be merged into The Big Bang Theory, or better yet, changed to incorporate the new articles (i.e., the full descriptions are removed in favor of shorter descriptions, and the list of secondary/tertiary characters remains. I recommend the latter, which I will do upon return to editing tomorrow. Thanks. — ^{`</sup>CRAZY`(lN)`SANE<sup>`} 17:36, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Last Name

Please add her last name to the article.Mdriver1981 (talk) 00:05, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

What is it? Pic Editor960 86.168.6.67 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:45, 13 May 2009 (UTC).

It is never used, and is possibly being built up as an intentional mystery. Or it might be reflecting the way she doesn't do anything requiring a full name.[1] Billwilson5060 (talk) 11:33, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Age

1. Why, is the fact that she was 9 when her nephew was born mentioned? What does it add to the value of the article? 22-13 is 9, big whoop. Robin.lemstra (talk) 06:32, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't know where you come from, but where I come from it is not common to become an aunt/uncle at 9. -- Imladros (talk) 02:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

What universe is that, exactly? It's plenty common, it just may not happen a lot in families where you only have two kids. Welcome to the rest of the world.24.12.229.83 (talk) 03:01, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Hey, welcome to America. If you ain't a redneck, 2 to 3 is the average number of kids in a family. And they usually aren't spread enough to have children when their younger siblings are 9. --Sunao (talk) 21:30, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

And Penny's from Nebraska, where 2,2 kids is the standard. -- Imladros (talk) 08:12, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Restructuring the article: new sections

The articles of the main characters, Leonard Hofstadter, Sheldon Cooper, Penny (The Big Bang Theory), Howard Wolowitz, and Rajesh Koothrappali, are growing in size but without a proper structure. I propose creating standard sections in which to put information: Personality, Family, Work, and Relationships. I believe the show centers mostly around these topics, so the information would fit nicely. I'm not saying these are the only sections that will ever be used, but they are a good start; perhaps they will need to be modified in the future. Also, let's keep the content complete but encyclopedic; there is no need for an indiscriminate collection of information. 189.235.132.118 (talk) 16:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Referencing episodes

I suggest using this format to reference the episodes

<ref name="S01E01">{{Cite episode
|title=Pilot
|episodelink=List of The Big Bang Theory episodes#ep1
|series=The Big Bang Theory
|serieslink=The Big Bang Theory
|airdate=September 24, 2007
|season=1
|number=1}}</ref>

as suggested in Template:Cite episode.

The "episodelink" field includes the link to the appropriate episode in this way List of The Big Bang Theory Episodes#ep1. The number in "#ep1" refers to the continuous episode number in the series, not within a season. For example, The Griffin Equivalence is episode 4 of season 2, but it is referenced as List of The Big Bang Theory Episodes#ep21.

The citation in the actual article may very well be in "horizontal" format.

<ref name="S01E01">{{Cite episode|title=Pilot|episodelink=... etc.

This has already been implemented in List of characters in The Big Bang Theory. 189.235.132.118 (talk) 16:18, 31 December 2009 (UTC)