Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1468708-20160720021201/@comment-1468708-20161127193012

Reviving because of some things that need to be addressed.

I’d first like to talk about thousand separators and how they should be used on this wiki. I mean, whether to put “1,000,000”, “1 000 000”, “1.000.000”, “1000000”, “10,00,000”, “1 Million” or something similar. The problem is that, even though different countries and regions have their own numeral systems and they are completely fine on their own, this is an English wiki. As such, after talking a bit with Antti, I believe it should be expected that all users follow standard English conventions when creating articles, including separating thousands with commas.

I know that if we agree to separate thousands in a specific way, there will be many articles AND categories that will be caught hanging. And they are a lot, and I doubt someone would like to go and fix them all. That is why I’m currently setting up a bot that will help clean up this problem (announcement coming shortly).

Another thing is the use of what I would call “Category for categories”, or categories that should only serve as a category hub. For example, we have “Contestants”, “Contestants by country”, “Shows”, “Celebrity contestants”, or even “Contestants from somecountry”. I believe that these categories should have as little pages as possible, and that more specific categories should be used to host pages. For example, “Celebrity contestants” is currently hosting a myriad of Russian celebrity contestants and a few articles about celebrity contestants from other versions, and it is a mess trying to look for a specific article (417 pages). I believe something along the lines of what is currently being done with Category:Celebrity contestants from the U.S. should be done with versions that have lots of celebrity contestants (as in, separate by country, then by season, theme, etc.). Similarly, “Contestants from Russia” is currently hosting 555 pages. No one is going to browse through 555 pages. Maybe create some additional categories to sort contestants by administrative regions (oblasts, republics, etc.) to make it easier for people to look for what they want. And finally, categories that separate contestants by winnings should also separate them by year/season if the category itself gets too big. Just like previously, this task can’t possibly be performed manually. It will need to be performed by a bot.

Do remember that all that I’ve stated is my opinion and may not be the best answer to the issues at hand. Whatever your opinion is, please make sure to include it as a response to this topic.

Thank you