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| - __TOC__ Why hasn't this appeared at any forum? - Henryacores^ 02:37, July 11, 2012 (UTC) and why does this contradict the Manual of Style in several ways? For example: "[parent pages are] limited to enemies that had appeared at least in five titles within the series". This calls for 6 in some cases or 10 in others. ._. 17:15, July 11, 2012 (UTC) To explain, I was going to create this and then clarify each matter individually. The reason it was not sandboxed or anything else first was because things discussed don't come to be very often and we needed something like this. So I just put this straight into project space. But instead of starting discussion on specific points, I decided to wait for someone else to comment on this first. The policy was posted in projectspace (by an IP no less) and no one did anything. Which is really disappointing yet morbidly amusing. @Catuse: Policies change over time but the MoS is rarely updated. Also whenever an enemy has five appearances people always say "this can be an enemy parent". In the past these were often turned down for not being significant enough. In other words there are many other enemy pages that could be created. Of course, this is one of the things that needs to be discussed. 79.69.206.105 20:34, July 11, 2012 (UTC) things discussed don't come to be very often and we needed something like this. Policies not discussed shouldn't come to be. This is a wiki, not a one-man army. But instead of starting discussion on specific points, I decided to wait for someone else to comment on this first. The policy was posted in projectspace (by an IP no less) and no one did anything This was given absolutely no visibility. Not all editors are omnipresent or even omniscient. If I wanted to do the right thing, I would have given this no tolerance and deleted it on sight. That's not how you do things. Also, this thing is completely inconsistent with the official Manual of Style, which is even makes it worse in showing that this is all fruit of one's ego. - Henryacores^ 21:24, July 11, 2012 (UTC) "Not all editors are omnipresent or even omniscient." This wiki isn't exactly a small wiki. There's usually a handful of user's watching RC at any one time. I would also expect users to check back over edits made when they aren't watching RC. The fact that no one does anything is ridiculous. No wonder talk pages almost never get seen to by SysOps. "If I wanted to do the right thing, I would have given this no tolerance and deleted it on sight." Yeah, because deleting a policy page that aims to write the rules no one in the past has ever bothered to write is definitely the right thing. "Also, this thing is completely inconsistent with the official Manual of Style" No it isn't. You've been told one inconsistency. The MoS isn't even for article creation, it's only supposed to regard formatting and structure of the different articles. And trusting the MoS to be up to date and accurate? For characters it has Gallery, Etym, Trivia, and for recurring enemies it has Trivia, Etym, Gallery. I didn't base this on the MoS, I based this on how the wiki actually covers content. Some numbers were created on the spot and hadn't previously been discussed, but I came up with sensible numbers based on the scenario. Of course, this doesn't entirely replicate article coverage. And the reason for that is there is inconsistency. For example, this page states that all sub-categories of inventory goes on the List of Items page, but that is not true. For some reason Loot gets a page, and there also other scenarios from other games, and there isn't any specific rule or reason why the exceptions are there and they can't just be sub-headers on the List of Items page. And these are the things that need to be discussed. 79.69.206.105 21:41, July 11, 2012 (UTC) A discussion which you failed completely to promote. It even sounds hypocritical that you suggest it. - Henryacores^ 21:45, July 11, 2012 (UTC) I know that I failed to promote it. I said that I did that on purpose to see if our userbase pays attention/cares. 79.69.206.105 22:01, July 11, 2012 (UTC) EDIT CONFLICT: Okay, so, what you're saying is that you decided to leave the section of the community that doesn't keep watch on the RC in the dark as an experiment. You know, JBed, that's really not helping anything at all >_> I saw this when it first got created, and I balked a little, but I didn't object, because let's be real, here; the community needs a set of rules clearly defined in order to help users see when to create a new page. I can think of several pages I was unsure of whether or not to create before that this has (or would have, had anyone but JBed agreed on these things) cleared up. I agree completely with the "what", but I disagree about as vehemently as I can with the "how". Shame, JBed, shame on you for doing this completely alone without even giving it to others for a glance or anything. Are you trying to make a point here? Teach us a lesson? There are better ways to go about this, I mean, seriously. Also, admins, I would like to take the opportunity to ask where you guys were on this. I mean, it didn't even come to any of your attentions until Cat and I were discussing it on the IRC. What happened? I mean, Scathe is in Indonesia right now, so he gets a pass; how about the rest of you guys -_-? Having said that, I frankly do not care what happens regarding any of these rules so long as when you guys get done arguing about it, there are rules in place and a clear-cut policy for this. JBed is right in that rules for this do need to be in place, and one thing that I do love about this is that his rules are about as clear as they can be, and it's very nice. Multiple possible requirements for many page types are listed, exceptions are noted where relevant, it's really quite nice. Just next time, JBed, maybe consider talking this through with someone before you do it? Anyone? Nobody likes a headstrong loner, and if you have to wonder why nobody would trust you with SysOp or Bureaucrat rights, come back here and think it over some. 00:53, July 12, 2012 (UTC) What do you mean "how about the rest of you guys?" What other admins are there to read it, besides Henry, who isn't an all-seeing and all-knowing god or whatever. I miss important stuff in RC all the time, which is one of the reasons a wiki this big needs multiple admins. Reality check: never even seen Hecko, Mymindislost, Crazyswords, and Shane edit and I've been here for a while; Bluesey's busy with work or something; Fae, 8bit, and Yuan are reachable through IRC in the early-morning but otherwise mostly inactive; Scathe is on vacation (?) in Indonesia, and ... is that everyone? I guess so. Now I hope a potential vandal doesn't see this page, get it into his head that he's unbannable, and go vandalising-spree-a-go-go on us. Of course, Sactage and the VSTF would bring the banhammer down on his head pretty fast, but yeah, that wouldn't be very fun :\ 01:33, July 12, 2012 (UTC) I meant Fae and 8bit and maaybe Yuan (I think she's still busy with general stuff though). So, just Henry, then? Well, that's.. lovely :\ I mean, I suppose I knew on some level that we had one actively editing admin, but, well, yeah :\ I guess Scathe will be back by the end of the month, though, so we'll just have to hold out until then I suppose. 01:38, July 12, 2012 (UTC) If I were to write a response to this I don't think I could do it without being very extensive, and I do not wish to do that here. If you care for a response, nudge me on User talk:JBed. But for here my response is: "An IP did it." JBed (talk) 12:01, July 12, 2012 (UTC) Not reading all that because I'm a bit busy ATM (though I'll try to read through it when I have some time), but two points: But instead of starting discussion on specific points, I decided to wait for someone else to comment on this first. The policy was posted in projectspace (by an IP no less) and no one did anything. I know that I failed to promote it. I said that I did that on purpose to see if our userbase pays attention/cares.:...I dunno why nobody noticed it (I was out of town that day -- maybe Shockstorm and Esprit buried it under their massive editing sprees? I have file edits turned off of RC for that very reason, but not everybody does.) but it did spark a long IRC discussion after Shockstorm mentioned it Talk:Claustrum. Again, surprising more people aren't showing up on this talk page (since a lot of people were involved, including BlueHighwind, who wanted to know why we even bother with policies. Another complaint with this page is that it was written by an IP. Nobody will take an IP's walls of text seriously unless they know that it wasn't actually an IP, just somebody signed out.) You've been told one inconsistency. The MoS isn't even for article creation, it's only supposed to regard formatting and structure of the different articles.:There are other inconsistencies. It wouldn't be that big of a deal, but it's darn confusing. Once again I cite Talk:Claustrum where there's another inconsistency. To make Claustrum into a parent page or not? Nobody knows. 00:33, July 12, 2012 (UTC) Oh, okay. Originally equipment was three appearances. There was a discussion later on that increased this to four. There was a discussion later on that suggested increasing this to five... and I was fairly sure that that was where we were with repeatedly increasing numbers. Or maybe five was the last suggested and it was the discussion where I said repeatedly increasing the number is pointless. I think Xeno was involved. I might see if I can find it but it is unlikely. Every time "the wiki" decided to increase the number it was on a random talk page however, and it wasn't really with large amounts of input though. I'll change the page. 79.69.206.105 00:40, July 12, 2012 (UTC) Ah, my mistake, it was four being discussed. 79.69.206.105 00:48, July 12, 2012 (UTC)
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