Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150322005151

Hey Guys, sorry if this is a little later then the last few have been. Wanted to make sure I had everything to write just one post. One of these weeks I will have added everything in the first attempt. Anyway, here are some things going on this week on the Wiki.


 * Emperor Jarjarkine is the newest member of the News Team.  As such, his name is now blue.  He has the spiffy template, and his interviews should now show up on the front under news.  Unlike prior news team members, Jarjarkine likes to focus a lot of his efforts on the wiki and its members.  I want to thank him, as well as Sleeping, for their work on the wiki and keeping it up to date with the news.


 * Gaminnomicon has been nominated for member of the month.  Game, while new to the wiki, is responsible for over 1000 images being added to the wiki, and the almost complete removal of the "image needed" category for Morrowind NPC's.  He is also the newest guild master, leading Team Morrowind.  To cast your vote, go here.


 * As was brought to my attention by Pelinal Whitestrake, somebody found some un-sourced information on an article that was determined to be fannon, or fan created lore.  To make this matter worse, he posted his findings on a forum (link here ) and some people have begun to bash our wiki and its content.  The bad content was removed, but this kind of mishap cannot become a regular event, and I think its entirely possible to make sure it never happens again.  As per policy, all content needs to be sourced and we need to hold ourselves to this level. Sourcing information can be found here.   In order to handle this problem swiftly, we have two options being talked about.  1.  A filter on lore articles that would prevent larger edits that are without references. This would require a CT and would add a limit to editors, but would create a new defense to the articles.  2.  To start a guild with the goal of handling the articles and sourcing valid content while removing fannon. This requires a good sized team of lore masters and editors who know source materials within the games, but I myself can only think of two or three.  If we can get enough experts on lore, we could justify the teams creation.  What are your thoughts on this?


 * The wiki is going to attempt to take a look at some policy's in the future.  One of the reasons I have been hesitant to do this is because how much stress this caused the last time.  As a community, we have a lot of ideas of how things are and should be done.  Some things may be left alone, but other policy's need to be updated, and ideas need to be discussed.  At this time I do not know what items should be discussed, or how important some things are compared to others.  I do think it will be better to handle one item at a time instead of the whole bulk.  I ask that the staff and community message me one or two things that need reviewed or updated, I will get back to you and we will figure out how to take the next step together.


 * While here, I have a request.  As you all know, we have more then a few articles marked for deletion, (I am making progress, please don't think I am ignoring it) and from time to time new articles are added to the list. When marking an article do not clear the contents and replace it with the template.  We need to know exactly what we are deleting, why, and what links need to be repaired.  Also, remember to give a reason in the template otherwise we won't know the reason and will remove the template.


 * Relating to deleted articles, some of you may receive notices that comments on boards will be edited by me. This is me fixing the link because the current one has or will soon be deleted.  While I would much prefer to tell you all personally, there are a lot of you, and leaving a ton of messages takes a lot of time.  Please rest assured I am only fixing the link and am not altering anything else.  I will still ask or notify you (depending on if your active) to fix links in archives.  While technically, I could edit it without telling you, it has your name on it and some people feel more strongly about this then others.  I myself will admit I am not a fan of my archives being touched.


 * As I stated last week, the articles in "Good Article Nomination" had been in nomination limbo for some time.  All articles that have not been voted on will have the nomination removed.  These articles can be re-nominated and voted on at any time, but we can not just let them sit for months at a time.


 * Vivec has the most votes for being the next FA, but has some errors still.  I will give it some time for the errors to be fixed, but I will have to null the vote if its not brought up to standards by..I will say Monday night.  I ask you all to take a look at the article and make sure its OK to be on the mainspace and to take the time to look at our good and featured articles and make sure they are all still up to our standards so we do not have to do repairs as long or often as we are in this case.


 * I am restarting Skyrim, this isn't really news, I just have one achievement left, and my save file got lost before I killed that level 80 dragon.  I just wanted to say this for no real reason and this has no real effect on the community or the wiki what so ever.

 