Forum:Draughting Table
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A usefull new area, bigger than a sandbox but not ready for wiki inclusion.
The Draughting Table
Users are comming up with great ideas that need fleshing out by other, more experienced contributors. The problem is they are posting them to the wiki as articles when the pages are not suffiiciently constructed to do so. These pages are quickly marked for deletion.
examples: Inconsistencies and Retcons and it's talk page, A DWU cross-continuity and it's talk page, and my own idea on running gags and such
We need a place where such works in progress can be posted so as to give them time to be worked over, improved, and flesh out. The authors of all three are actively looking for help as to content, parameters, better ideas and so on. I don't know if the sandbox is such a place, so, I'm proposing some sort of Draughting Table for works in progress or for users proposing new and original pages such as the ones mentioned above.
I don't know if such a place exits or if it simply a matter of stickering a "WORK IN PROGRESS" tag on the full article page. If neither of these suffice a Draughting Table would be a very usefull area for good ideas to get turned into new, creative, usefull and appropriate articles for this wiki. --Stillnotginger 06:03, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Can these pages not just be a Forum:The Howling topic(s)? --Tangerineduel 14:19, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't know enough to answer. On an inital survey of sample pages I thik yes they can. Such a solution is still lacking a little bit, mostly because of semantics or labelling. Right now I don't know of a distinction that can be made so that a Howling entry can be clearly marked as a page under construction. Perhaps one of those boxes would be enough of a fix, e.g. "this page is a stub" or "this page is marked for deletion". A large banner across the top of the page saying "This is a page under construction" or "This page requires fleshing out before posting", or something like that, would go a long way to assuage an author that his forum entry is meant to be a potential article an all edits should reflect this AND that the related discussion page is for comments, helps, suggestions, etc...--Stillnotginger 14:40, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Another template like the Template:Inuse which could be created and used on these pages. --Tangerineduel 14:43, March 2, 2010 (UTC)
