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About Plural Links

Okay, I'm noticing a LOT of people doing this. When making a page link PLURAL, as in [[High Priest]]s do NOT put the "S" INSIDE the [[Link]], like [[High Priests]] this. Instead, add the "S" to the OUTSIDE of the link, like [[High Priest]]s this. It's creating a lot of "wanted pages" and it's really time consuming to go through all of them and fix em. Thanks. --Resplendent 22:51, 17 September 2007 (MDT)

Another thing that is putting a very large number of pages on Special:WantedPages is articles are being copied and pasted, and when people see a link to Berserk Potions (or any item), and they simply change it to [[Berserk Potions]]. Double check links before doing this, many of them are originally Template:Item and actually are supposed to link to R.O.D.E.. If people dont want to look up ID numbers, thats perfectly fine, leave it as Berserk Potions, likely someone else will eventually change it --Biochemistness-76 00:10, 18 September 2007 (MDT)

Gif's vs Png's

At this point, we already have almost all the skill icons and a large number of item icons uploaded in .png format. There was some brief discussion on this topic, but the only contributions were regarding jpg vs png since screenshots are originally jpeg. If peoeple desire to use a different format across the wiki, there should probably be some further discussion on the topic rather than people just blindly changing templates back and forth.

(also, Template:Skill and Template:Skill List are serving the same function, one should be decided on and the other should be disposed of.)

--Biochemistness-76 18:22, 18 September 2007 (MDT)

There was some discussion about this on IRC a few minutes ago. I can post the log if interested, but consensus seemed to be that PNG was here to stay, at least for the things that used to be GIFs. Hadas 18:32, 18 September 2007 (MDT)

Template:Skill seems to be the more frequently used template; Template:Skill List is probably only used because it appears in the Templates Category, while Template:Skill doesn't (should be fixed if it's the one kept) --Reiko 04:00, 24 September 2007 (MDT)

Skill List was the one used on RI iirc. --Deviattor 10:08, 24 September 2007 (MDT)

Policy Development

I would like to see some actual coherent, consensus-supported policies come into existence here.

A potential skeleton for these could be:

• Editing Policy
  • IROWiki:Civility - Policies regarding dealing with other editors, such as assuming good faith, civility, etc.
  • IROWiki:Deletion - Policy regarding deletion of articles and other media on the wiki.
  • IROWiki:Protection - Policy regarding the protection and semi-protection of articles.
  • IROWiki:Moderator - Policy regarding the provision and revocation of sysop status as well as sysop-specific policies (e.g. policies regarding wheel warring)
  • IROWiki:Vandalism - Coherent policy against vandalism (with a definition of what vandalism is)
• Content Policy
  • IROWiki:Verifiability - Policy that verifiable information is preferable to non-verifiable information.
  • IROWiki:Use iRO - Policy that information from private servers is strictly prohibited and information from legal servers other than iRO (e.g. kRO) is less important (and less useful) than information from iRO.
• Style Policy
  • IROWiki:Manual of Style - Create a coherent theme that should be shared by all wiki articles. Should include a section on naming conventions as well.

Hadas 05:44, 19 September 2007 (MDT)