Elite Wiki:Village pump

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Discussions

Problematic pages

I think Break should be simply deleted, or at most userfied if applicable. Which brings me to two pages, User:RyanHoots/Commander Ryan Hoots and User:Tricky/Commander Tricky, which are already userfied, and that is good, because information about a user should be on a userpage. But I think we should remove the Category:User from those two pages, since the categorization system is already part of the Elite Wiki, and that is not appropriate. Unless this would be viewed as the beginning of categorization of userpages, somewhat like User categorisation, which I personally would not recommend for a small Wiki. Debresser 19:53, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Reminder

Can some admin please delete all the pages that need to be deleted? See the template above. Debresser 05:42, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia

I propose to move all the articles in the Wikipedia namespace to EliteWiki namespace and to delete the Wikipedia namespace. This is not Wikipedia, after all, but the EliteWiki, and that is why our default namespace should be EliteWiki. Debresser 05:41, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Rough Guide

We have two parallel categories: Category:Rough Guide on the Ooniverse (using "on") and Category:Rough Guide to the Ooniverse (using "to"). The main article is at Rough Guide to the Ooniverse, which is the actual title with "to". Can we merge the "on" category into the "to" category? Debresser 23:18, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

By the way, this was also the intention of the first poster on Category talk:Rough Guide on the Ooniverse, which was not understood by the second editor there. Debresser 06:04, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

Account creation

The main page says: Important note - Due to the increasing number of spam accounts, new account creation has been disabled. If you want an account, please send a PM via the Oolite Bulletin Board to 'maik'.

I would replace that by: Important note - Due to the increasing number of spam accounts, new account creation has been disabled. If you want an account, please follow the instructions at [{Wikipedia:How to created an account]]. Or: ...please follow the instructions [{Wikipedia:How to created an account|here]].

At that page I would add a bit about that they'll have to create and account at the Oolite Bulletin Board, if they don't have one. About how to find maik. That they'll have to post something somewhere before they'll be able to write maik a private message. Things like that, which I found a bit confusing when I went through the steps. Debresser 21:54, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Go button

I think that Wikipedia:Go button is a bit redundant. For beginners it is too detailed and complicated, and more experienced users will not need it. I recommend to delete it.

Regarding the search function. I noticed that the "search" field does not show any suggestions. Can functionality like that be added? That would also make instructions regarding capitalization superfluous. Debresser 21:47, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Fiction

The Fiction category lacks a definition, and seems to include both works of fiction, authors, fictional characters and entities, and until recently terms. I think this category should be diffused into the appropriate story categories (like Elite stories, Frontier Stories and Oolite stories), and the to be created Category:Authors, Category:Fictional characters and Category:Fictional organizations (or simply Category:Characters and Category:Organizations) categories. Would that make sense? Debresser 21:40, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Top or bottom

On Wikipedia it is customary to add new discussions to the bottom. Here I saw the opposite: the newer discussions are above the older ones. There is even a specific instruction to that extent, see above. Is that the way we want to keep it, or do we want to conform with the Wikipedia custom in this regards? Debresser 19:38, 16 January 2016 (UTC)

Ooniverse

I thought it might be prudent to create a category for the Ooniverse-related stuff, and make Fiction a subcategory of this. For example, I have this idea of moving the Rough Guide to the Ooniverse stuff and even creating some more Oocanon for us. Thoughts? Zireael 13:40, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I see that the Guide is listed under Fiction, so maybe I'll start moving the Oocanon stuff there... Zireael 16:47, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Dynamic Ship List

Some pages are inserting multiple entries in Dynamic_Ship_List_(Oolite) which renders its sorting functionality useless. Either remove the SMW template from these pages or split in single pages which can be transcluded? Svengali 09:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

EliteWiki namespace

Some OXP related pages are using the EliteWiki namespace (e.g. EliteWiki:The SunBat Line). Move? Svengali 09:56, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

The same applies for the other WIKI related namespaces (e.g. Wikipedia), etc. I also think that the redirects for Oolite, FFE, etc. related pages in that namespace should be removed. Opinions? Svengali 18:00, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

OXPs in Oolite category

What is the proposed approach for OXPs - placing them in the Category:Oolite or not? >90% of the OXPs do not push into it. Svengali 21:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

The same applies for Fiction. Fiction has a own main category and a subcategory in Oolite, so removing the category Oolite from these pages is probably the way here. Mixing different approaches for navigation trees is not really that helpful. Svengali 20:18, 5 May 2013 (BST)

Template mess

We currently have quite a few different templates to place pages in categories. Some are using the the OXP-in-category template, others are simply using the passed parameter. Time to stick with one approach, I'd think. Svengali 21:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I've also seen that some templates (e.g. HUD-OXP) have been cleared. What should this be? Svengali 14:16, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Wanted pages

Special:WantedPages contains a lot of requested articles. Some are lurking there for several years. Specially Classic, FFE and FE2 stuff hasn't been touched for ages. Should we go and simply turn the links in plain text? Svengali 21:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

I've filled out some wanted articles recently but I don't know enough about Classic/FE2/FFE to do anything. I guess we need to find someone who knows his Elite history? Zireael 13:40, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

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