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Hello.
First, I think that we should encourage inserting regular wiki references for important information into our profile pages to a far greater degree than currently.
It looks far more professional and reliable to our visitors, and makes it much easier for us to verify information, and in addition our pages are currently very vulnerable to when the sources for video and image links are removed, and if the E.U. or the U.S. government puts pressure on Imgur and other image hosting services to use artificial intelligence to remove all of their copyrighted manga and comic book pages, that would be devastating for the entire structural cohesion of our wiki as a whole.
We already have a references section in our Standard Format for Character Profiles page, but so far it has not seemed to remotely have done a good enough job with encouraging our members in this regard. Perhaps we should remove the "Optional" part from that and the top illustration image for the page? It is obviously unrealistic to remotely start enforcing the principle to the degree of wiping out the 99% of our wiki pages that lack reference sections, but it might nevertheless make an important point regarding that this is the much preferred format from now onward.
We also need to adjust our Editing Rules and Welcome Message pages in an appropriate manner. Suggestions for how to word our stricter rules would be very appreciated.
Secondly, the punctuation in the statistics sections of our character profile pages technically does not really make much sense, and we have mainly maintained the format out of habit, since that it is how we have always done things since long before even I joined the wiki. It could be argued to be stylistically appealing of course, but ultimately it also looks rather weird and unprofessional. Mind you, I am not the best to ask about proper English punctuation, so help with suggestions would be appreciated, and our Common Editing Mistakes obviously needs to be updated with adjusted instructions. Competent volunteer help with this would also be very appreciated.
So, what do you all think?
NOTE: STAFF ONLY
First, I think that we should encourage inserting regular wiki references for important information into our profile pages to a far greater degree than currently.
It looks far more professional and reliable to our visitors, and makes it much easier for us to verify information, and in addition our pages are currently very vulnerable to when the sources for video and image links are removed, and if the E.U. or the U.S. government puts pressure on Imgur and other image hosting services to use artificial intelligence to remove all of their copyrighted manga and comic book pages, that would be devastating for the entire structural cohesion of our wiki as a whole.
We already have a references section in our Standard Format for Character Profiles page, but so far it has not seemed to remotely have done a good enough job with encouraging our members in this regard. Perhaps we should remove the "Optional" part from that and the top illustration image for the page? It is obviously unrealistic to remotely start enforcing the principle to the degree of wiping out the 99% of our wiki pages that lack reference sections, but it might nevertheless make an important point regarding that this is the much preferred format from now onward.
We also need to adjust our Editing Rules and Welcome Message pages in an appropriate manner. Suggestions for how to word our stricter rules would be very appreciated.
Secondly, the punctuation in the statistics sections of our character profile pages technically does not really make much sense, and we have mainly maintained the format out of habit, since that it is how we have always done things since long before even I joined the wiki. It could be argued to be stylistically appealing of course, but ultimately it also looks rather weird and unprofessional. Mind you, I am not the best to ask about proper English punctuation, so help with suggestions would be appreciated, and our Common Editing Mistakes obviously needs to be updated with adjusted instructions. Competent volunteer help with this would also be very appreciated.
So, what do you all think?
NOTE: STAFF ONLY