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Introductio
A while back, we held a thread about changing this wiki's standards for creating profiles, due to extremely long and unreadable Power & Abilities sections which could be handled much more efficiently, and the thread was concluded but nothing ever came out of it, so I'm making this thread to organize a project for both:
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I made my own post with my own suggestions for solving these issues, which got accepted by the majority, which can be read here, but the summary is:
DontTalkDT made his own large post which was also accepted by a good number of staff members and users. Cutting the suggestions which were similar to mine, some of his unique suggestions on how to handle the issue were:
The above mostly deals with the profiles themselves. For the Standard Format for Character Profiles page, as I mentioned before, we would need to add these instructions under the "Additional informatio" section, in a way that gets the point across to new users aiming to create new pages, so we would need to explain things such as how to use tabbers and etc.
Not only that, we would also need to update the Editing Rules page to reflect the more essential standards in here. I'm open to suggestions on how to exactly word the edits.
Introductio
A while back, we held a thread about changing this wiki's standards for creating profiles, due to extremely long and unreadable Power & Abilities sections which could be handled much more efficiently, and the thread was concluded but nothing ever came out of it, so I'm making this thread to organize a project for both:
- 1. Updating the Standard Format for Character Profiles with the appropriate instructions, and with the best wording to get the point across to everyone.
- 2. Updating the profiles which suffer from the aforementioned issues.
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I made my own post with my own suggestions for solving these issues, which got accepted by the majority, which can be read here, but the summary is:
- 1. Encourage users to make blog or sandbox drafts of their profiles before actually publishing them. This way, they can actually gradually perfect the profile itself, making the staff clean-up work minimal - this solution would actually drastically reduce the current workload as well. They could also request evaluations of their drafts from time-to-time and ask for tips.
- 2. Encourage users who are making extremely lengthy profiles with lots of abilities, and characters with lots and lots of abilties only, to use tabbers. This should be merged with the above suggestion about the blog drafts, since the misuse of tabs would increase the workload if not handled appropriately.
- 3. Encourage users to cut down the bulk in lenghty profiles and try to keep explanations in the Power & Abilities section more short and to the point. In that case, larger explanations would be available in the "Notable Techniques" section.
DontTalkDT made his own large post which was also accepted by a good number of staff members and users. Cutting the suggestions which were similar to mine, some of his unique suggestions on how to handle the issue were:
- Not to sacrifice any details for the reading convenience - ie, to try and get the details across the most efficient manner, as opposed to just aiming for the shortest possible explanation while sacrificing important points. In this case, if the user doesn't manage to come up with a short explanation, a longer one is preferrable.
- The usage of "all prior/all former abilities" for characters who don't lose any of their former abilities when they transform and thus go to a different key.
The above mostly deals with the profiles themselves. For the Standard Format for Character Profiles page, as I mentioned before, we would need to add these instructions under the "Additional informatio" section, in a way that gets the point across to new users aiming to create new pages, so we would need to explain things such as how to use tabbers and etc.
Not only that, we would also need to update the Editing Rules page to reflect the more essential standards in here. I'm open to suggestions on how to exactly word the edits.
