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:I'm not sure though about deleting the Master article. We are continuing the development of the article, and I had the thought that we were adding and expanding the article with the other articles' information rather than wiping it ''all'' out and beginning again. | :I'm not sure though about deleting the Master article. We are continuing the development of the article, and I had the thought that we were adding and expanding the article with the other articles' information rather than wiping it ''all'' out and beginning again. | ||
:The Master article has a layout to it that we can expand and broaden detail on, so I don't think deleting and beginning again with a clean slate would be the best way to go. | :The Master article has a layout to it that we can expand and broaden detail on, so I don't think deleting and beginning again with a clean slate would be the best way to go. | ||
:I acknowledge that we may be open to some reverts of the page, but I think that's just something we have to deal with. Keep it admin locked while it's being worked on and the layout and redirects get in place and then we can stagger the unlock from admin to registered user and then much later along unlock it for IP editors. We can keep all the redirects admin locked so no one tries to recreate | :I acknowledge that we may be open to some reverts of the page, but I think that's just something we have to deal with. Keep it admin locked while it's being worked on and the layout and redirects get in place and then we can stagger the unlock from admin to registered user and then much later along unlock it for IP editors. We can keep all the redirects admin locked so no one tries to recreate The Master (UNIT years) or whatever. --[[User:Tangerineduel|Tangerineduel]] / '''[[User talk:Tangerineduel|talk]]''' 12:34, July 22, 2012 (UTC) | ||
::Just to confirm — yes, we're merely integrating the various Master articles into one article. That is, from a certain point of view, "starting over", however, so a deletion and recreation wouldn't be out of order philosophically. If you want to live with the possibility of reversion to an earlier state, though, I certainly won't oppose that. Restarting would simply be a way of keeping the previous form of the article under admin control, much in the same way you're suggesting we lock the redirects. | ::Just to confirm — yes, we're merely integrating the various Master articles into one article. That is, from a certain point of view, "starting over", however, so a deletion and recreation wouldn't be out of order philosophically. If you want to live with the possibility of reversion to an earlier state, though, I certainly won't oppose that. Restarting would simply be a way of keeping the previous form of the article under admin control, much in the same way you're suggesting we lock the redirects. | ||
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Having allowed more than ample time for the proposal of alternate plans — and hearing none — I'm now completing my final review of [[The Master/Rewrite]] to ensure we don't lose any information that is a part of the sub articles. [[The Master/Rewrite]] is now locked to ensure that I'm looking at a "constant" version while conducting the review. | Having allowed more than ample time for the proposal of alternate plans — and hearing none — I'm now completing my final review of [[The Master/Rewrite]] to ensure we don't lose any information that is a part of the sub articles. [[The Master/Rewrite]] is now locked to ensure that I'm looking at a "constant" version while conducting the review. | ||
Link changeover will begin as I delete each of the previous articles. The current link — e.g. <nowiki> | Link changeover will begin as I delete each of the previous articles. The current link — e.g. <nowiki>The Master (UNIT years)</nowiki> — will be replaced by a template involving (mostly) the actor's last name — as in, {{tlx|Delgado}}. This will produce a link to [[the Master#Nemesis of the Third Doctor]] but will look like [[the Master]]. If you need the "the" to be capitalised, you'll type {{tlx|Delgado|c}} and it'll be rendered "The Master". {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 20:36: Fri 16 Nov 2012</span> | ||
:Arrgggh. Wikia are reporting something in this week's bug reports that has a direct impact on this project. If you link two two different sections of a target article in the current article, then the links render to only one of the sections. So let's say I'm on the article [[Earth]] and I'm talking about the number of times the Master has been on Earth. I'm gonna inevitably link to {{tlx|Delgado}}, {{tlx|Ainley}}, {{tlx|Roberts}} and {{tlx|Simm}}. But because of this bug, all of those links are going to point to the section of [[the Master]] having to do with the Delgado Master. Which means this concept won't work right now. It's on their to-do list, but for the moment, '''we're going to have to put this project on hold even longer'''. There's just no method of guaranteeing a valid section of a section of [[the Master]]. I'll let you know when we can proceed. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 01:28: Sat 17 Nov 2012</span> | :Arrgggh. Wikia are reporting something in this week's bug reports that has a direct impact on this project. If you link two two different sections of a target article in the current article, then the links render to only one of the sections. So let's say I'm on the article [[Earth]] and I'm talking about the number of times the Master has been on Earth. I'm gonna inevitably link to {{tlx|Delgado}}, {{tlx|Ainley}}, {{tlx|Roberts}} and {{tlx|Simm}}. But because of this bug, all of those links are going to point to the section of [[the Master]] having to do with the Delgado Master. Which means this concept won't work right now. It's on their to-do list, but for the moment, '''we're going to have to put this project on hold even longer'''. There's just no method of guaranteeing a valid section of a section of [[the Master]]. I'll let you know when we can proceed. {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 01:28: Sat 17 Nov 2012</span> | ||