News on front page

[lian]

I wondered if it wouldn't make sense to promote major policy changes to the news blurb on the front page -- the fanworks renaming policy has quite an impact on the wiki (okay, mainly on gardener clean-up, heh), but old-format articles are being created all the time because except for this community, I've not seen the change advertised anywhere. What do you think -- what should News be used for?

Comments

[franzeska]

Yes please! On Wikipedia (which is where I and probably a ton of other people using Fanlore figured out how to use wikis), I usually just find an article that looks similar to what I want to do and copy things from it since I can never remember:

Naming policies
Where to find templates or figure out what templates exist
Formatting

And if people are doing that on Fanlore, they're automatically going to perpetuate outdated standards for ages.

[morgandawn]

great idea. I am finding that someone had gone into the Due South fanzine page and set up placeholders for zines (without adding any data) using author names in titles - and so I had to work with what they had put in place or else run into problems with other zines with the same name. I am also finding a lot of legacy author names in Star Wars and Sentinel zines so perhaps add something to the announcement about how to mark a legacy page for gardener attention?