Forum:Remodelling of the MOS

{{TNE|time=03:15, February 8, 2010 (UTC)|text=I'm picking up from where we left off at the Mensa, and since the suggestions for remodelling the MOS have been closed, I will put up our current stances right here for everyone to see. So these are the issues :

Videos

 * People have been uploading videos to KHW, when in actual fact, they can just embed the vids by using the code found on Help:Beginner's Userpage. And some of these videos end up being deleted. We have to make this code clearer to the rest.
 * The 4-vid rule might have to be switched to a 6-vid rule or even an 8-vid rule, in light of the new releases of Days, BBS and Coded.
 * Video walkthroughs in the case of the Days Missions should be allowed, and possibly the Gummi Missions, since it'll usually only involve one video. Otherwise, videos are only allowed in boss battles, or battles exclusive to the Final Mixes, or the song pages.

Images

 * Images without white BGs should be placed inside a thumbnail and a caption must be added, if it doesn't fall in the Gallery section. The same goes for images that have been cleaned and cropped (as in the instance of Vanitas' Keyblade).
 * In case we have to address this issue, the maximum number for a normal Gallery section (not including the character/enemy list) is 12. Or we might reduce this to 8. But more than anything, it's the relevance of the images that counts, not the number.

General Rules

 * As I had mentioned in Talk:Sora's Heartless, circular definitions are not allowed. The example given there was Sora's Heartless is the Heartless of Sora. It doesn't explain anything. It's just like saying "A brain surgeon is a surgeon of the brain" - unless people do know, for example, what a surgeon is, and what a brain is, it's not going to explain anything. Similar case with this. Where we see circular definitions, we have to restructure the opening sentence.

Naming

 * All Heartless or Nobodies or goodness knows what which have been given new names in new releases should not have their names changed. The Watcher is still the Surveillance Robot.

Layout of Boss pages

 * I'm talking about Battle Quotes. I believe that we should limit them to 10, and battle quotes should not appear on the character pages. Raise your discrepancies now if you wish the battle quotes to appear for main characters.
 * Grunts and cries do not need to be put up.

Number of navigation templates

 * The number is not an issue, though I think it should be that all navi templates (except one-line ones like the Princesses of Heart) must be collapsible.
 * The respective navigation templates should be explained in the MOS, as some users do not know where to put them. Same goes for infoboxes and whatever relevant templates.

See Also issue

 * The stance now is that See Also pages should be removed unless there are pages which need to be brought to the player's attention. This, too, is highly unlikely, because for Heartless like Pot Spider, which need to be linked to Pot Centipede and Pot Scorpion, their names can be found in the Heartless Directory (correct me if I'm wrong).
 * The only things which fall into the See Also page shall be things which are closely related to that particular character, or element, or whatever.

Spoiler warnings

 * Point number four of Kingdom Hearts Wiki:Spoiler Policy remains in effect.

Trivia

 * Our stance has always been that trivia is limited to only seven, though if there are eight trivia bits, we don't mind. If there are nine, we start yelling.
 * The same trivia point shouldn't be on EVERY SINGLE ARTICLE, if such a case happens.
 * Again, as the MOS says, we must try to bring in related bits into the storyline somewhere. As far as trivia is concerned, it shouldn't be redundant or pointless.

Categorisation

 * Categorisation shall be enforced, and a Category Tree Help page shall be constructed to guide users on categorising articles and, particularly, images.

Wikilinking

 * The MOS has said that we only link to an article once, but I believe that we should now link at least once per section, if the article is long. Say, if you're in Sora's page but you want to link to Axel, one link won't be enough because the page is obviously bloody long. :P
 * For shorter articles, the one-link-per-page rule will apply.

Warning Templates

 * Warning templates should be used by everyone, especially if the user putting the templates to use is trusted. However, reasonable steps must have been taken to warn the vandal before actually whipping out the warning.
 * An Assume Good Faith page shall be constructed.

I believe that I've addressed all issues in the Mensa, and I need your final feedback because this coming weekend, I shall proceed to remodel the MOS. }}

Category Tree (Someone please continue from where I left off ?)
I am exhausted. Can someone please continue for me ? Thank you. ^_^

What all this means :
 * Red text means that there's something wrong with the placement of that category.
 * Black text means that the category is empty.
 * Yellow text, or whatever colour I'll be using other than red and black, means that the categories can be merged into a bigger category. Say, for instance, the ones in yellow can be merged into "Articles in need of maintenance", just so that they'll at least know where to head to.

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