Forum:Decoupling Help from Community Central
If this thread's title doesn't specify it's spoilery, don't bring any up.
Opening Post
I think this proposal is relatively obvious in its basic principle. If we maintain our own Help pages we allow for more specialized advice for editors/users than what they would get from Community Central, and it's not like we can't link to the CC Help pages within these pages. For instance, compare our version of Editing with CC's.
Some level of admin action will need to be undertaken immediately to try to decouple the two, as well as to try to save some of the pages that are lost, if possible. (For instance, T:FAITH seems to just be gone. User:Najawin/Assume good faith redirects to a blank page, and while these redirects on User:Najawin/Sandbox 6 will get you to the pages that are largely inaccessible, you can't view the edit history or edit them as a regular user. Trying to do so sends you to CC.) After that, there might need to be a project to update them, as some of them are quite old, but that's secondary to actually recovering what's been deleted. If y'all like, we can also use this thread to discuss some rewrites for various help pages that have been neglected over the years or can't be recovered. Najawin ☎ 02:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
Also, as a note to admins: The notice that exists when you make a new post, the little drop down in the editor from the triangle with the exclamation point, it still says "You're also posting to a spoiler-free area. Please avoid posting information about the narrative of any unreleased story — even if that information has appeared in an official press release, trailer or clip." Should probably be tweaked. Najawin ☎ 02:52, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
- I support this proposal. As a new user, I found it really hard to work out stuff, infoboxes in particular. Having wiki-specific, detailed, factual help pages would be massively helpful. Aquanafrahudy ☎ 07:03, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
