Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1468708-20160720021201

Hello!

As you may have noticed, we are currently in a period of heavy editing. This fact made me remember an idea long overdue: setting up some "official" wiki standards.

Although most pages (mostly contestants) follow a specific pattern (due to the way I've set up Millionator), some of the new pages don't. This is understandable, as not everyone creates pages using the same tools, and people have different ideas on how to create articles. Furthermore, after seeing some of the new pages that were created, I am now considering changing the way I've been creating articles.

Thus, this opens the question: Should we create a (new) unified standard to create articles? I think the answer is yes, as it will make the wiki a bit cleaner and tidier than it is right now, and will help new users contribute and create more pages, as they will know what to do and expect from a page.

However, this also opens the question: What should the standard be? There's a variety of styles that are being used to create pages, but I believe that these revisions ( and ) should represent the standard for contestant pages (including the intro, FFF, klaxon and walk away/missed question texts), this one for hosts and this one  for WWTBAM versions.

Nonetheless, regarding the proposed contestant standard, I do want to make some changes (most notably dropping the "UK" and "U.S." bits on categories such as UK contestants from London (series 21)) and determine some necessary matters, including (but not limited to):
 * How lifeline usage should be explained
 * How categories should be presented
 * How question values should be presented in the shuffle format
 * What date format to use
 * Whether the |season paramater in the Infobox contestant template should be used, whether to include "Question" in the FFF question box
 * Whether to keep the "WWTBAM Run" section (as in, removing the ==WWTBAM Run==, and replacing ===Fastest Finger First=== with ==Fastest Finger== )
 * Whether to capitalize season/series
 * How to distinguish between primetime and syndicated US seasons, and much more.

Now it is the time to voice your opinion. Please state what you feel would be a good standard for pages in this wiki, if you do feel we need one. Anything will be accepted, as long as it doesn't break any of the rules stated in our ruleset (which, by the way, also needs some attention). Keep in mind we are not voting on any standard (yet), as proposals can change over time. Please respect other people's ideas, but feel free to propose anything that you believe would be the best for our community.

I know that I haven't really stated any desired changes on how hosts and WWTBAM versions should look like. That is only because I can't think of anything right now. If you do have anything, please say it.

Thank you, --Markoszarrate (talk) 02:12, July 20, 2016 (UTC) 