Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161207214850

While I can understand that, on average the discussions don't seem to go anywhere. Meanwhile, so far as I can see, I'm one of the few people who is going in and updating the comic summaries for older titles that never get any attention, or are in a lot of cases left blank or incorrectly completed.

Otherwise, these pages are woefully incomplete. At the end of the day, my manually entering in the category and moving those appearances down isn't harming any site functions and isn't really throwing anything off. If anything it's providing a more detailed breakdown which I see as a benefit.

Frankly, I don't see the harm in doing it in lieu of any better ideas or initiatives to fill those blanks. I am just trying to make these summaries the best experience for readers as possible. To me, that is a full and complete issue summary that is detailed as possible, and can direct the reader to any questions they might have about that comic.

As far as site policies go. There aren't any. Or at least, not any clear ones. As has been discussed countless times the site policies in the help section are incomplete, generic wikia, or otherwise grossly outdated. The "changing our policies" is a bit of a straw man when you consider how many other things are done on the Wiki that don't have any clear and concise policies or guidelines written for them.

Examples right out of our help guide: Tutorials: Links to Wikipedia which doesn't cover any of the Wiki specific templates we use. It's great for figuring out how Wiki code works, but as far as tutorials on items specific to our Wiki are nowhere to be found.

Help:How to Edit Has nothing on comic book templates, and hasn't been updated since 2011.

Cheatsheet... Links to Wikipedia. Again.

Editing tips.. Whole lot of nothing.

If you go to the Templates section in the help guide it merely links you to the Comic Template page which displays all the fields, but speaks nothing about esthetic, policy, guidelines etc. It barely gives a tutorial on how to fill it out.

Policies and Guidelines page itself? Generic Wikia. It's regularly updated but it has nothing on how to edit comic pages.

The Style Guide? Wikipedia again.

So really at the end of the day, any "policies" we have are filling items into the template as-is and not taking advantage of the flexibility of the Wiki format or thinking outside of the box.

I'd be happy to open the floor to policy discussion if they net a constructive solution to the issue at hand.