Wookieepedia:Mofferences/August 30, 2019

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Log

 * August 30, 2019 (Text)
 * Agenda

Minutes

 * 1) Governing article-nomination pages. Approved the following resolution: The Wookieepedia Inquisitorius, AgriCorps, and EduCorps reviewing bodies each have the autonomy to govern and maintain the rules of their respective article-nomination pages &mdash; Featured, Good, and Comprehensive article nominations.
 * 2) Columned reference lists. The following will now be the third bullet point of Layout Guide: "Reference lists may not be multi-columned. This feature has been removed from Reflist."
 * 3) CAN intros. Comprehensive article nominations, Rule 13 will now read: "...provide an introduction if it reaches 165 words, not counting the 'Behind the scenes' section. Conversely, an article may not have an introduction if it is less than 165 words, not counting the 'Behind the scenes' section."
 * 4) Links. Added the following provisions to Manual of Style:
 * 5) *General rules: Articles should avoid linking to disambiguation pages, with the exception of disambiguation and redirection templates.
 * 6) *Formatting:
 * 7) **(new content in bold) Prefixes and suffixes: killing, not killing ;  underwater , not underwater 
 * 8) **Do not place grammatical articles (such as a, an, and the) in pipelinks (example: the battle, not the battle ).
 * 9) **Do not separate compound terms upon first linking instance (examples: Battle of Hoth, not Battle of Hoth ; YT-1300 light freighter , not YT-1300 light freighter ).
 * 10) ***However, individual parts of compound terms may be linked upon subsequent mentions (example: YT-1300 light freighter is appropriate if YT-1300 light freighter has been linked previously).
 * 11) Contact details. Ratified creation of Contact
 * 12) Referencing. The following will be added as item 9 to Sourcing: "References may not cite information by individual page or chapter number, unless there is a specific referential need. This does not apply to citation templates that include page-number parameters, such as CSWECite."
 * 13) Punctuation.
 * 14) *A new subsection titled "Punctuation" will be added to Manual of Style. The existing "Apostrophes and possessives ending in 's'" section will be moved under "Punctuation" and will be supplemented with the following: "Articles shall avoid 'smart' (also known as 'typographic' or 'curly') quotation marks and apostrophes by converting them to ASCII (also known as 'neutral' or 'straight') quotation marks and apostrophes. In other words, quotation marks and apostrophes on Wookieepedia should look like '...' and "...", not ‘...’ and “...”."
 * 15) *A new subsection titled "Serial comma" will be added under "Punctuation" with the following: "Articles shall use the serial comma as standard."
 * 16) Standardizing titles for status-article systems. Wookieepedia will now capitalize "Featured," "Good," and "Comprehensive" when referring to Featured, Good, and Comprehensive articles