Thread:Markoszarrate/@comment-27847273-20160306133018/@comment-1468708-20160306190812

Hello MLUK!

Quick answer: Yes, we should definitely have some sort of guideline to use.

Long answer: I had planned to do so in the past (and even thought of coming up with this "correct" way by consensus), but since most of the time I was the only active editor, I believed those actions were not immediately required and did not take any further action.

I think the way most of the pages currently look is fine and can be used to create some guidelines. However, I'm still trying to come up with a satisfactory way of:


 * Distinguishing Primetime and Syndicated seasons of US Millionaire.
 * Coming up with a nicer way of categorizing UK contestants (some of the current categories have either 1 or 2 pages)
 * Producing a format to be used to create pages for seasons or series.
 * Deciding whether to put the ==WWTBAM Run== title on pages where the contestants did not play a FFF question.
 * Deciding whose videos to use if multiple sources are available.
 * Using the template when dealing with Shuffle-era contestants (most notably, whether to include the money value of a question above or below the question, due to it being revealed only after a contestant has answered a question, and not at all if a contestant misses or walks away from a question)
 * Categorizing Shuffle-era contestants based on winnings, if we ever do so.
 * Deciding whether to include the time taken to answer or time left on the clock (or both) when talking about Clock-era contestants (not so important in the UK and most Clock formats, slightly more important for US contestants due to the Million-dollar question using banked time on top of the 45 seconds, and the Tournament of Ten heavily relying on time taken to answer the questions in order to seed contestants).
 * Describing lifeline usage. I’ve got some questions that need some answers such as
 * Do we always describe what a contestant does when using a lifeline or its results, similar to what I do when a contestant decides to use the Phone-A-Friend lifeline, or only after using select lifelines? If we choose the former, we must come up with a format in order to describe all possible lifeline usages. If we choose the latter, we must create a list of those lifelines, but we still must come up with a format in order to describe how a contestant used a lifeline that we did not include in the list, but was used in conjunction with a lifeline that was in the list (e.g. I currently only describe Phone-A-Friend results; Ask the Audience and 50:50 are only being described if any of them were used in a question alongside Phone-A-Friend, or if the contestant decides to walk away during the same question).
 * Do we put the Ask the Audience results next to the answers –as I currently do–, on the |caption= section, or on a new section of the template? The latter will require modifying the WWTBAM Question template and including something like this:
 * What to do with Millionaire Hot Seat.
 * More stuff I can’t think of right now.

These are the kind of things I’m still trying to figure out, and will require some answers when developing guidelines. Got any ideas or suggestions?

Mark