Wookieepedia:Mofferences/September 10, 2016

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Log

 * September 10, 2016 (Text)
 * Agenda

Minutes

 * 1) IRC rules. Formalized and expanded official rules for IRC.
 * 2) Related Categories. Added a bullet point to Layout Guide defining use of RelatedCategories
 * 3) Naming policy. The following amendments were made:
 * 4) *Naming policy addition: "Alternatively, a Legends subject may use as its article title a name that would otherwise be a redirect to its Canon counterpart (example: Palpatine is the title of the Legends article rather than redirecting to Darth Sidious)."
 * 5) *Naming policy will now be divided into two subsections, "Disambiguation by continuity" and "Disambiguation between continuities"
 * 6) **"Disambiguation by continuity" addition: "The following section applies exclusively to intra-continuity disambiguation cases. Do not apply these rules to cross-continuity cases."
 * 7) *Created new policy for comic book article titles, in which the prefix "Star Wars:" will be omitted from most individual comic issues, similar to how Wookieepedia treats novels
 * 8) Quote of the Day. Agreed to re-add the QOTD feature to the Main Page as a randomized queue, with the caveat that it may re-purposed with a new design and moved down in the page in the future
 * 9) WookieeNews. General agreement to archive and retire Wookieenews, removing any links from the Main Page.
 * 10) Appearances and Sources. The following amendments were made to Layout Guide and Layout Guide:
 * 11) *Remove following clause from Appearances: "For comics, link to the individual issue, unless a subject appears in every issue of a story arc." Replace it with: "Comic books will be listed strictly by individual issue. Do not list comic story arcs, even if a subject appears in every issue of the arc."
 * 12) *Approved inclusion of "Non-canon appearances" subsection of Appearances, which will list non-canon appearances in in-universe chronological order
 * 13) *Approved inclusion of "Non-canon sources" subsection of Sources, which will list non-canon sources by real-world publication date
 * 14) External links. Layout Guide and Layout Guide/Out-of-universe have been rewritten to define this section's purpose. The OOU page notably now includes the following: "Ideally, real-world product articles, such as books or comics, will list at least one external link to an official product page from the publisher or manufacturer. If no such link exists, list the subject's Amazon.com product page. The Amazon page may be listed in addition to an official product page if it contains critical information not found on the product page, such as a publication date."
 * 15) Star Wars parodies. The following items have been added to the Layout Guide:
 * 16) *Layout Guide: "Canon and Legends mainspace articles shall not document content from Star Wars 'parody' projects (examples: Family Guy: 'Blue Harvest,' Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars, and Robot Chicken: Star Wars) unless there is a specific referential need in the article's 'Behind the scenes' section."
 * 17) *Layout Guide: "The 'Behind the scenes' section need not document any content from Star Wars 'parody' projects (examples: Family Guy: 'Blue Harvest,' Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars, and Robot Chicken: Star Wars) unless there is a specific referential need."
 * 18) *Layout Guide: "This section will not list Star Wars 'parody' projects that were created entirely or primarily outside of Lucasfilm's purview, such as Family Guy: 'Blue Harvest,' Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars, and Robot Chicken: Star Wars."
 * 19) FAN, GAN, and CAN. The following amendments were made to the article-nomination rules:
 * 20) *FAN:
 * 21) **Rule 9 will now read: "…have no redlinks."
 * 22) **Remove Rule 10: "…have significant information from all sources and appearances, especially a biography for character articles."
 * 23) **Remove Rule 11: "…not have been previously featured on the Main Page. Otherwise, it can only be restored to featured status."
 * 24) **Remove Rule 12, integrating it with Rule 4, which will now read: "…be fully referenced, including all quotes and images. See Wookieepedia:Sourcing for more information."
 * 25) **Add new Rule at bottom of list: "…be properly titled in accordance with Wookieepedia's treatment of Canon and Legends articles; i.e., no nomination may have "/Canon" in the title."
 * 26) *GAN:
 * 27) **Remove Rule 10: "…have comprehensive detail with all information covered from all sources and appearances."
 * 28) **Remove Rule 11, integrating it with Rule 4, which will now read: "…be fully referenced, including all quotes and images. See Wookieepedia:Sourcing for more information."
 * 29) **Add new Rule at bottom of list: "…be properly titled in accordance with Wookieepedia's treatment of Canon and Legends articles; i.e., no nomination may have "/Canon" in the title."
 * 30) *CAN:
 * 31) **Remove Rule 9: "…have all relevant canon information presented."
 * 32) **Remove Rule 10, integrating it with Rule 4, which will now read: "…be fully referenced, including all quotes and images. See Wookieepedia:Sourcing for more information."
 * 33) **Add new Rule at bottom of list: "…be properly titled in accordance with Wookieepedia's treatment of Canon and Legends articles; i.e., no nomination may have "/Canon" in the title."
 * 34) Discussions. Created Discussions to define the wiki's relationship with the Discussions feature.
 * 35) Site redesign. The Wookieepedia administration now reserves the right to implement release-specific design changes (such as to coincide with the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) to the wiki, including the Main Page, skin, and wordmark, without needing to go through a consensus forum for each change.
 * 36) Requests for user rights. Requests for user rights item 5 will now read: "They have had some form of major wiki contribution."