Our reference/citation links could use some formatting help. At the very least, reference links should include a title rather than just the URL being the title. Additional information to include if it's known: the author, publish date, publisher, and retrieve date. The formatting for this...
I'm not going to reply to every suggestion. This is a lousy system because I don't solicit people for suggestions and I didn't create this thread. Most technical stuff isn't going to change because I basically like how everything is right now. Users shouldn't expect technical suggestions to be...
Collab update: I fixed those protected pages. A guideline for this was added to the Manual of Style here. The easiest way to keep this going: If you're editing an article anyway, remove any unnecessary uppercases from section headers while you're there.
Here is my PSA about lists:
List of X - includes every series covered by the wiki
List of series X - includes everything specific to that series
Our main navigation list articles are now all "List of X", so they should cover all the main series. So for example, List of games should include all...
Jeez the IGN reviewer is obsessed with speed. Maybe Sonic is taking a new direction and review the game for what it is rather than what you want it to be.
Re: Collab: Cleaning the Beta Elements pages (mass move needed, see post #40-6)
I'm good with vetoing the proposal. A synonym of beta is pre-release. "we did it"
Re: Wiki Policy Updates
Right now we're just disallowing uploads of entire soundtracks or having media on soundtrack pages. We were going to clip the songs, but since none of the other soundtrack pages have media, we might as well just delete them and be consistent there. Music from games is...
Re: Collab: Cleaning the Beta Elements pages (new name needed, see post #40)
It might have to be pre-release elements. "Beta" wasn't being used literally to mean second software development phase, it was being used to signify anything pre-release. I like unused elements too, but it doesn't...
So we have some options if we limit it. (1) Only permit HelpDesk questions to be about the forum and allow other questions in the other forums. (2) Only permit HelpDesk questions to be about the forum and do not allow other questions in the other forums.
(2) Is too strict. We are a community...
Re: Bizarre Help Requests
The board isn't heavily used and if we restricted the questions it would be barely used at all. Question topics might as well be concentrated in one area to leave the other boards for discussions.
They may be "long" but don't necessarily have to be crammed. It's probably a good idea to just start with decades and then split later if the articles become substantial. It's fine if some pages remain in decade-form while others are split to years since it all just depends on how much...