Forum:Suggestions to this Wiki

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Hello. This is ADarkSide0125, an Adventure Time fan. Um, I'd like to give some suggestions to this wiki, and don't consider me as a bad man or something, I just want to help the wiki out. If you want to read the full script, look here: User blog:ADarkSide0125/Suggestions to This Wiki. Thank you. I repeat, I am not commanding you to do this, either reject or accept or comment, but don't ban me for this.

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 * 1) Source mode. My suggestion here is to not disable the source mode editing because some users may edit first in visual mode then gradually will learn how to edit in source mode, since that was the same path some of us did for sure. What I can say is, if you want to disable visual-based editing, you can disable the Quote pages, Gallery pages and Transcript pages. When in visual editing, the Quote and Transcript pages are just a bunch of green puzzle pieces, and it's a pain to keep opening each of them just to edit a single misspelling. In Gallery pages, it is very hard to edit them because they are just a  bunch of icons in the left part of the screen, and you need to open each, not to mention each image, to edit the contents (caption, etc.)


 * 1) Games pages. In this wiki, games do not have a standard lay-out. Sometimes badge items are here, but other times they are in the galleries, Sometimes, there are no gameplay rules, some no characters. For me, we need to form a standardized way of how to edit these real-world games. If you would accept this, I thought of this:
 * Gameplay (the rules, how to play it, controls, etc.)
 * Characters (the characters in the name, who are playable or not)
 * Items (items in the game, how are they used, definition, usage)
 * Badges (the badges in the game, pictures too, how to get it, def.)
 * Trivia (tips, cheats, other info)
 * Gallery (screenshots, title screen, etc.)

There should also be a standard format for each, like bold text, alphabetical order, etc.


 * 1) Attachments. There are pages that use the formatting of a certain template, and consequently, the category attached to the template is also added onto the page even though it is not an applicable page for the category? What do I mean? For example, this user uses the Object template, and the Objects category (which was a default attachment of the Object template) is, of course, attached to it, even though it isn't an Object page, let alone a main space page. So, what I think to do is to copy the formatting (since this is a template, I don't know how to convert it to pure format), so the category would not be added, because when you take off the category from he template itself, hundreds of pages will be affected.


 * 1) Banners. For those who block or ban people for chat, you need to display a banner why you have blocked this person. I know that the reasons why could be accessed in the block log, but we are talking about users as a whole. To stop them complaining, you need to put the banner with a specific reason why + screenshot. I don't know if this is still continuing, but some talk pages I have seen consist of banners without the reason or no banner at all. Honestly, I didn't know for a while that Blugo was blocked.


 * 1) Elections. Look:
 * Tavis should not be admin anymore (by Redzephyr01)
 * Mini and Ins should not be admins (by Tuckyd)
 * Random users get promoted to chat mods (by XxXBK27XxX)
 * RoseSweets should not be maintenance admin (violent reaction by Flambo the Epic Epic)
 * Flambo should get promoted (by TMBMITW)

I know that some of them are finished and done with, but user swill continue to rant about it in blogs or talk pages. So what I say is to start an election. Users can nominate and specifically give a reason why they are applicable for the spot, just not out of personal appeal to others. If this is not really allowed, just give a reason why this admin is still active and not demoted, their specialties, why they are elected to the position (such as Minichurro5, since he was an only a temporary admin since FP was, as he said, in Mexico, yet received outroar for others), because users are not moved why. Some admins selected are totally worthy, but some do not understand why.

Images.


 * Categorizing. Categorizing takes a long time and tedious work, speaking from experience, but someone needs to categorize at least a thousand more images found in the Special:UncategorizeFiles. Maint. Admins can do it, but that's just one too many. Yuz said that we should have a custodian project, but I don't really know what a custodian project is, so, yeah.


 * Deleting.
 * I have a lot of suggestions.
 * Delete photos uploaded by those who are infinitely banned from the wiki.
 * Do not allow photos only used as reactions in blogs (this form a majority of unrelated photos here in this wiki)
 * Delete screenshots after ban is finished.
 * Duplicate images deletion


 * Renaming. Someone needs to do that: Images like Image:AASVJSAFNBGVFDVD do not necessarily fit into a modelsheet image.


 * Licensing. Someone also needs to do that, but I think a bot may be used.


 * 1) Requests. A pure suggestion: A Requests page should be made. I think this can be suitable because some or one admin only gets the request to ban someone, delete pages and images, etc. If putting them all into one page (signature requests, chat ban and block requests, deletion and undo requests, etc.) can be permitted, then an admin can easily move into action. You can put if the request is for a specific person or for a general category: admins, chat mods, etc. and you can put whether this requests has been approved or rejected.

So yeah. Hopefully some of them will be considered, then I can start editing. It's been three weeks, four weeks? Yeah.

14:06, October 12, 2013 (UTC)