Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161207231155

ADour wrote: By policy I mean simply a course of action, which in this case is the course of action we take when listing appearances.

Yes I agree. However, there is nothing written down. That would be my main point.

However, I have yet to have someone float other ideas after I've identified the technical issues with the current "standard".

ADour wrote: While I understand and appreciate your contributions and the necessity to clean up and improve articles for old comics

Thank you.

ADour wrote: I think it's important to take into account the aspect of community of the wiki and attempt to reach a consensus proposing changes instead of bringing them up for discussion but implementing them anyways.

Given the lack of feedback, I get am thinking the community census is indifference.

ADour wrote: Discussions do tend to become stagnant, as it has happened to me a lot of times, but in that case a continuation of the discussion should be encouraged or an ultimatum could be issued to bring up a vote and decide what happens at last.

At last count, there have been at least three different discussions regarding reorganizing the template with respect to appearances. A discussion about mentions, a discussion about flashbacks, a discussion about recaps etc. etc.

This many discussions on a similar topic and nobody can make a concrete decision. I'm am opting on taking initiative on the matter, again see the perceived indifference.

ADour wrote: Maybe we should create a policy for proposed changes that would force the mods and admins participants of a certain discussion to vote "yes" or "no" if the discussion goes a couple of days without replies or is taking too long to reach a middle ground.

Again, see my previous comments about indifference.

As one of the few active senior editors, I made the decision to take the initiative on the issue.

But, hey, if we're going to discuss this further, can anyone:


 * Provide any reason why this doesn't work?
 * Does this impacts anything on the site?
 * Can anyone justify keeping things the way they are with the technical problems (IE: APN tags) I have pointed out?
 * Can anyone provide an alternate idea?
 * Does anyone have constructive feedback as well?
 * Anything to add?

Because I've made pretty clear my reasons why it should be done this way and listed the benefits of doing so, aesthetically, logically, and provided a technical and navigational benefit.

So far, the only real response I've gotten to counter is that people don't want to manually enter a new line, alter the appearance lists, or research the affected appearances. Which is a preference to do or not to do that work. Which, fine, if you don't want to do that I'm not expecting people to do it. But if there is a benefit it should be allowed.