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This is a summary of decisions made on the 18 April 2009 at an IRC meeting. A transcript is also available.

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Topics on the agendaEdit

Sub-sectionsEdit

  • Decided that enemies lists will be split up into Native and Non - Native mini lists on articles.

DisambiguationsEdit

  • Decided that more disambiguation pages will be created.
  • Also decided that pages such as Holo will be created to work in a similar way to a disambiguation page.

New featureEdit

  • Everyone was happy with the new Wikia features.

Welcome message signatureEdit

  • Decided that "@latest" was the best choice.

TriviaEdit

  • Was decided we do not want pages dedicated to trivia.
  • A forum may be opened to discuss this again if Tigernose would like to. HunterjHunterj icon Hunterj's Resort 14:04, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Thai420Edit

  • Decided that a final message will be left on his talk page asking he if plans to contribute to the wiki anymore. If no reply is heard by June 1st his bureaucratship and adminship will be removed for inactivity.

Skidd's RaceEdit

  • Decided that a page about an unnamed green humanoid species will be created with the Conjecture template in use.
  • Rilgarians will redirect to the page as well as having a note in the trivia about them likely being native to Rilgar.

Multiplayer wikiEdit

  • Decided multiplayer content will fit fine on this wiki and that no multiplayer wiki is needed.

User page policy - user namespace editsEdit

  • The following rules are to be added to the user page policy.
  • After 50 edits in total are created on the wiki:
  • A warning will be given if the user namespace edits for this wiki go to 40%
  • If they then go up to 45% the user page will be protected until the user namespace edits reach 35% or less.

Copying article content onto own user pageEdit

  • Decided this is allowed as long as the categories are removed.

Layout for walkthroughsEdit

  • Hunterj will edit Tigernose's idea on the MoS talk page and then put it on a sub page as an example.
  • Examples will be created for all other types of articles and put on sub pages.

Another Lombax?Edit

  • We do not edit the Lombax article according to the Crack in Time teaser as not enough information is confirmed yet.

Add-one for the siganture policyEdit

  • Decided that a user's username must be readable in his/her signature in the form of text or an image - this will be added to the signature policy.

ForumEdit

  • A forum dedicated to A Crack in Time information and speculation will be created.

A Crack in Time informationEdit

As long as there are strong sources, A Crack in Time information is allowed onto the site, the Conjecture template can be used for unnamed characters.

FA/GA userboxes and Featured User userboxEdit

  • They will be created and distributed by admins in a similar way to Darthipedia's.

Enemies categoryEdit

  • Will be divided up into enemies by game and then divided up again into enemies by race as a category within that category.

ImagesEdit

  • Image categorisation will be added to the to-do list.

CategoriesEdit

  • Category categorisation will be added to the to-do list.

Excessive pagesEdit

  • Pages like "Omega something" will not be merged with their normal counterpart.

User image policyEdit

  • Six images are allowed to be uploaded for the sole use of a user's user/talk page - this will be added to the image policy.
  • A user image will be created if one does not already exist.

User and user talk page policyEdit

  • Restrictions will be put into place over image size on user and user talk pages - All images must be a reasonable size and no wider than the default width of a page. This will be added to the user page policy.

Backup dancersEdit

  • The task of turning Backup dancers into a disambiguation page and creating an article on Courtney Gear's backup dancers will be put on the to-do list.

Categories Manual of StyleEdit

  • A category section will not be added to the Manual of Style.

{{Title}} in user/user talk pagesEdit

  • The user page policy will have the following restriction added: A user page must clearly be a user page and must have the user's user name in the title.

Strikeout votesEdit

  • When votes are struck from a list, the # is replaced with a * and the entire vote is moved to the bottom of that list in addition to be crossed out.

Nefarious' heightEdit

  • Nefarious' height will be removed from the article as it is pure speculation and assumption.

Company/corporation infoboxEdit

  • Creating a corporation infobox will be added to the to-do list.

Character infoboxEdit

  • The biographical section of the infobox will not be expanded.

Mentioned onlyEdit

  • The mentioned only put next to some appearances will not be capitalised at all.

User's using different IPsEdit

  • If problems with blocking users occur again we will contact Wikia for help.

MiscellaneousEdit

  • Splitting this category up will be put on the to-do list.

To-do listEdit

  • A to-do list will be created.

Walkthrough listsEdit

  • The current bullet pointed list will remain as it is.
  • A new sub section (===) will be created for each planet below the list showing the missions found on the galactic map and a brief description of appearance of the planet near where the player first lands.

Ratchet & Clank duoEdit

  • Sections on both the Ratchet and Clank articles will be created about their friendship.

Topics discussed off of the agendaEdit

  • A YouTube and e-mail will be created for the Ratchet & Clank wiki. It will be used by the administrators for promotional videos, special events, walkthroughs and by sending videos to them for use on the wiki.
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