118Wiki talk:Community Portal

Navigational Templates

I removed the navigational template that had the "Academy Resources" bar in it. It was a good start, but when creating nav templates, you really want something that's like a Table of Contents for that area. Check out the one I have right now: Template:Academy. It's not centered, but I'll fix that later tonight. --Webmaster 16:31, 18 Aug 2004 (EDT)

If you keep it to the right it goes in nicly with all the articles--James Mckenzie 10:00, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Pictures

First, pictures are not necessary at the beginning of a file. They were there in the main site's Academy area just to add some spice :) But here, we don't need them.

Also, when you're inserting a picture in a file, be sure to align it properly. If you don't have an "align" property, it'll just sit by itself. You can add "|right]]"/"|left]]"/"|center]]" directly after the image name, in the tag, to make the text flow around the picture. Also, head here and look up the "images" section to see other neat things you can do with images, like making thumbnails and such. --Webmaster 16:31, 18 Aug 2004 (EDT)

The align feature is really nice I did not know about if before. :) Also I understand about the pictures. --James Mckenzie 10:01, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Categories

You can see what categories have already been created by going to: Special:Categories.

The trouble I'm having right now is trying to figure out how to break down the IC category. Into canon and non-canon? But really, what here is intended to be canon? This is supposed to be almost all non-canon UFOP: SB 118 things. :-\ So, I think that the best thing to do is not break it down any further into subcategories. --Webmaster 16:21, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Should the academy area be broken into categories or not? --James Mckenzie 19:32, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Re-Create Main Menu

I have set up the main menu and moved it to the main page. I hope that is all right. What is everyone's comments about the new Main page? Any suggestions?

Also how often should we change the featured article?

--James Mckenzie 19:35, 19 Aug 2004 (EDT)

Unnecessary pages

I'm getting a little concerned about the number of pages on our wiki having to do with canon elements. The main purpose of 118Wiki is to deal with issues and subjects having to do with UFOP: StarBase 118. By adding pages having to do with canon ships, especially pages that are copied in whole from other websites, we are opening ourselves up to copyright infringement issues and pages upon pages of pages which require maintenance.

I'd like to hear from some folks as to why these pages are necessary on our wiki, and how we can avoid any copyright issues. Memory Alpha and Wikipedia both have free-sharing policies, but some of the sources I've seen lately do not. --Wolf 14:46, 14 Aug 2005 (CDT)

ADDENUM: I do see the need to add pages about classes like Achilles, which are non-canon. But when Wikipedia and Memory Alpha have pages which are fully comprehensive, wouldn't it just be easier on all of us to put a link to either one of those places? --Wolf 14:50, 14 Aug 2005 (CDT)

Basically, I gave up arguing against them... I'm not keen on them either. - Jay 03:44, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

Honestly, if you really believe they are unnecessary, you're more than welcome to get rid of them. I really don't care at this point... its suddenly seems to have become a very passive aggressive way of disagreeing with me. If they're really such a problem - DELETE THEM. Doesn't make a bit of difference to me. A lot of it I put up because I thought it would be interesting for people to look at, and perhaps it would give them an idea for something in their character's past, or perhaps something from one of the other characters from the show could inspire them and give them an idea they couldn't come up with before. That was my reasoning. If you disagree, go ahead and delete the stupid things. I was just trying to be helpful and put a few things up on the site, some things that may be of use to somebody at some point. I thought that was the point. And I know the main mission is to put things that have to do with SB118 UFOP, which means quite a bit of non-canon... but I thought the canon world influenced us as well. I tried to do a little bit of research into the things before I posted them, and if I did happen to take anything that has copyright issues... well, I'm sorry, dammit, but I was just trying to help. --Lt Pietro Maximoff 09:08, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

This IS meant to be a non-canon encyclopedia of info relevant to the group... thus vessel classes such as Galaxy Class are still easily obtainable at the Memory Alpha wiki in more detail (and less time typing/editing)

Actors aren't really relevant, again, leave that to MA or Wikipedia.

This site is for info relevant to duty posts (i.e. navigational advice, diseases, chemicals, Warp Core components, etc..), Ship Histories (see what I've done with the Wallace pages as a guide), and charactors (Alana Devars page is a good example of that.) - Jay 11:25, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

FINE. I'm wrong. I'll take care of the damn things, then. --Lt Pietro Maximoff 12:29, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

I certainly hope that fixes it... I got rid of all of the canon information and only left links to the Memory Alpha Wiki. I'll be sure to limit myself to non-canon material from now on. Its not like it was my own time I was "wasting"... but I'll leave it at that. --Lt Pietro Maximoff 12:54, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

Really, I don't think all this swearing is necessary. I have no idea what has transpired between the two of you, but this seems like it's being made to be a far bigger deal than it should be. Furthermore, now I am tasked with the cleanup up this whole mess, as I have to go through and delete all these pages.

The point was not to go through and mass-delete everything, but come to a mutually agreeable solution to how we would deal with copyrighted information and pages which need upkeep when other sources are better suited for that. Seeing as how Maximoff has taken the solution into his own hands, however, I will simply delete all of the empty pages and we will move on our way.

Maximoff, I'd suggest you take a look at Memory Alpha and consider putting your time resources there. I think they would be appreciative of your participation. When here, though, let's keep things to subjects directly related to our group, especially when in the non-canon capacity. --Wolf 20:58, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)

ADDENUM: I'm not going to go searching for all the articles that have been blanked. If anyone comes across them, please add the following template to the page: {{Delete}} --Wolf 21:07, 17 Aug 2005 (CDT)