Forum:Additions to Policies

Please add all of your ideas here for redefining the Highschool of the Dead Wiki Policies. Please be serious about this, if you are not serious your comment will be deleted and not consider. All serious comments will be considered, if they point out a issue in the wiki that needs to be redefined. Hammiams 02:28, April 26, 2012 (UTC)

I don't think I talked much about this before, so I'll bring it up now. I would like to eliminate the use of real world sources in universe articles. This happens primarily on gun pages where users add information about the various weapons that is not found in the series. We've never really done a lot to prevent this in the past. The exception to this would be articles about things in the real world like authors and products, though we don't have many of them yet.

I think a solution to this would be to add a link somewhere on the page to the gun or vehicle's Wikipedia page, since that seems to be where most people get the information they add. I've actually checked before and found that some people copied and pasted directly from WP. I think we can either add the link to the top of the page in a similar style to WP's "disambiguation" headers or add it to the Trivia sections. I'm leaning more toward the former.

One other thing that kind of goes along with this is the "this character resembles" references in the Trivia. Our Manual of Style already says this is not acceptable, but that hasn't stopped this from happenning to virtually every major character. These obviously don't belong here since they are irrelevant to the series and based on opinions rather than facts. We already have the rule, but I wanted to bring it up so we can enforce it more.Turambar  00:01, April 27, 2012 (UTC)

I already brought this up in the MOS revisions, but I wanted to mentioned the new way I think we should do references. I was adding a new reference for every few pages in each chapter. I think we should simplify by using only one reference per chapter in the Plot, and use specific pages when refering to something specific in another section, such as saying what a character was wearing at a certain time in the Appearance section. This will make it much easier to add references and hopefully encourage more users to do it.

I think we could also reduce the Plot sections a bit, making them much less detailed. I started revising the Takashi article and making the Plot section extremely detailed, but I think it may be better to make them more succinct while still not leaving out too many major details.Turambar  13:29, April 27, 2012 (UTC)