Forum:Abandoning 'sources' in favor of 'media': Difference between revisions

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(Created page with "{{Forumheader|The Panopticon}} <!-- Please put your content under this line. Be sure to sign your edits with four tildes ~~~~ --> ... New domain, that's weird. So I figured I'd move over the only forum that's started since tardis.wiki moved over the contents of the site. == Opening post == So this will be a very quick opening post. Not too long ago, we decided as a website to abandon favoring 'stories' or 'narratives' when it came to our attempts to cover fiction. Be...")
 
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::::::Indeed, now we know this issue isn't worth fretting over as our new site, the One True Wiki, doesn't even have the GoR! [[User:OttselSpy25|OttselSpy25]] [[User talk:OttselSpy25|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:19, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::Indeed, now we know this issue isn't worth fretting over as our new site, the One True Wiki, doesn't even have the GoR! [[User:OttselSpy25|OttselSpy25]] [[User talk:OttselSpy25|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 20:19, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
::::::: While I'm the editor responsible for introducing usage of "sources" across the Wiki as a replacement term for "stories", I agree with @[[User:OttselSpy25|OttselSpy25]] that changing this term to media or fiction is the way forwards.
::::::: Sources was meant as a quick fix, but I completely understand the position that this is alienating to readers. I think my preference would be fiction -> media, but I'm certainly fine with the adoption of media.
::::::: One thing I will ask for is a bot to bulk rename the category trees as I had to do a lot manually, a procedure I wish to not have to repeat. [[User:Epsilon|Epsilon]] [[User talk:Epsilon|<span title="Talk to me">☎</span>]] 01:14, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
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