UESPWiki:Community Portal/Archives

This subpage lists all of the past discussions from the Community Portal. This page provides one way to browse these discussions; others include:

The Archiving Guideline outlines the archiving of old discussions, including discussions from pages other than just the Community Portal.
Archive Category is a category system organizing old discussions by topic.

Major Discussions

These are major discussions, including on-going discussions that have not necessarily been resolved. If a discussion is not marked as resolved, you are free to add to the discussion; if you do so, please also add the topic to the Active Discussions list on the main Community Portal so that other editors know that the discussion has been resumed. The discussions are listed in reverse chronological order (based on when the discussion was first started).

Title	Started	Resolved	Topic
Unwanted Additions	Dec. 2011		Discussion of content policies that are largely unofficial
Quest Item Redirects	Jan. 2012	Jan. 2012	Pointing quest items to quest pages, and how to relay such information
Oblivion Apparel and Magic Effects	Sep. 2009	Dec. 2009	Developing a consistent system for detailing enchanted apparel
Interwiki Links	May 2008	May 2008	Should the site use Interwiki Links for integration with other wikis?
User Page Warnings	Nov. 2007	Mar. 2008	When/how to add/remove warnings to/from user pages
Aristeo and IRC	Apr. 2007	Jul. 2007	Disagreements over protection of pages and the IRC channel
De-Adminship Request	Feb. 2007	Feb. 2007	Request for Aristeo to return to editor status.
Wikiscrolls Project	Jan. 2007	Jan. 2007	A new wiki similar to the UESP.
Patrollers	Dec. 2006	Jan. 2007	Addition of a "Patrollers" category of user, that would have the ability to patrol pages.
Principles Controversy	Nov. 2006	Jan. 2007	Controversy over basic UESP Wiki principles and practices, including Archiving, Civility, Consensus, IRC Usage
Bread Crumb Trail	Nov. 2006	Jun. 2009	Utility and formatting of bread crumb trails.
Copyright Issues	Nov. 2006	Dec. 2006	Use of copyright protected material from Elder Scrolls games. Books, screenshots, maps, etc.
Mod Info in Articles	Nov. 2006	Jan. 2008	When and where unofficial mods should be included in articles, how to organize PC-specific, Xbox-specific, etc. information.
Morrowind Quest Pages	Oct. 2006	Dec. 2006	Proposed reorganization of Morrowind quest pages. Continued discussion belongs at UESPWiki talk:Morrowind Redesign Project
Anonymous Editing	Oct. 2006	Dec. 2006	Desirability of, limits on, and technical implementation of anonymous editing.
Curing Stupidity	Oct. 2006	Nov. 2007	Dealing with very low quality edits

Chronological Archives

These subpages are archived discussions. The pages should not be edited, other than to fix links or other similar required maintenance. If you would like to followup on a discussion from one of these subpages, please start a new discussion on the Community Portal (preferably including a link to the appropriate archived topic). Those marked "not subpaged" have not yet been added to the archiving system, and therefore their individual topics are not listed in the archive categories.

Archiving the Community Portal

Any editor who would like to help update the Community Portal archives is welcome to do so. In addition to actually creating archives, there is maintenance work that can be done ahead of time.

When new topics are added to the community portal:
- Make sure that community portal is the most appropriate place for the discussion.
- Add a Template:Archive Header template at the top of the topic with any relevant archive categories (not necessary for moved topics or for topics that are of no future interest, e.g., "I'm new here. How do I edit a page?")
- If a topic becomes too long, turn it into a major discussion.

When the page is ready for archiving (i.e., it's been more than a month since the last archiving and the page is getting long):
- Move all of the topics that have been inactive for at least a week to a new archive page, e.g., UESPWiki:Community_Portal/Archive_15.
- Add {{Archive Header|none}} to the top of page; add a {{Archive Footer}} template to the bottom of the page. See Archive 7 for an example of the templates.
- Add the new archive page to the list at Archives.
- Go through the new Archive page and move any topics that may potentially be of future interest to a subpage. For example, a topic with the header "Example Topic" would be moved to a page named UESPWiki:Archive/CP_Example_Topic. See Archiving Process for details.
- Before saving each new subpage, move the Archive Header to the top of the subpage. If there is no Archive Header, create one. Fill in the categories if it's obvious what the categories should be. If not, leave the categories blank, e.g., {{Archive Header|date=2008 June}}. That will put the page into the uncategorized list so other editors know that it needs to be fixed.
- On the Archive page, replace the section with a transclusion, e.g., {{UESPWiki:Archive/CP_Example_Topic}}

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