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< Zealvurte

Basically, this is a simplistic list of all the changes i feel need to be made to the wiki, and am currently pushing for.

  1. Web standards and symantically correctly markup.
    1. Removal of tables used for non-tabular data.
    2. CSS 2.1 standards (With CSS3 used in exceptional cases for enhancement, but not critical functionality and display.)
    3. XHTML used in coformance with 1.0 transitional standard, avoiding depreciated tags in all cases.
  2. New CSS theme changes (nothing major, just fixes and additions)
  3. New Namespace policy
  4. New Category policy
    • Namespaces only as Categories except in wiki functionality cases.
    • Disambiguation for namespaces
  5. New article policy
    1. New writing policy
      • Always use self-links
      • Acceptance of stubs
      • Nouns and proper-noun used correctly.
    2. New naming policy
      • No generational article titles outside the user space.
      • Capitalize the first letter of each word with the exception of "of", "the", "a" etc.
    3. New disambiguation policy
      • Listed in brackets.
      • Seperated by commas.
      • Disambig templates.
    4. New speculation and controversy policy
      • Kept seperate under a clear header
      • Brief summary with links to internal or external articles to explain and discuss.
    5. New citation policy
      • Only direct quotes.
      • No paraphasing.
      • Citation template.
    6. New refrence policy
      • Paraphrased.
      • Reworded.
      • Refrence template.
      • Source categorizing.
    7. New structring policy
      • Article type headers encompass the whole article.
      • Summarized content in right column in appropriate format.
      • No level 1 headers.
      • Section containers with indents.
      • ToCs in right column below summary.
      • Article links (both internal and external) in right column below ToC.
      • Article images images in the right column below links.
      • Contexual images floated and cleared where needed in text flow.
      • Article inclusion coding.
  6. New image policy
    • Explain how to set the background for png with differnt applications.
    • Copyright issues.
  7. New lore policy
    • Neutrality stance explantion.
    • How to write speculation and controvesy of lore.
    • New Retcon policy
      • What a retcon is.
      • How the wiki resolves a retcon.
      • How to explain retcons in an article.
  8. Organize new user groups
    • More power.
    • Better defined roles.
  9. New Template policy
    • New documentation standards and templates.
    • Removal/Replacement of many poor-usage templates.
    • New article header standards and templates.
    • New inline header standards and templates.
    • Article structring helper templates.
    • Category helper templates.
  10. WoW Database
    • Setup
    • Integrate and document usage for articles.
  11. Javascript tooltips
    • Interal article link summaries.
      • Items
      • NPCs

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