User:MuppetArchives/Current Events 07 (March 2006)

Archiving discussions from Current events. For more archived discussions, see the Current Events Archives category.

Nominations for Main Page Redesign
Now that we've got the Muppet Wiki Vote Page policy worked out, I opened up a Nominations page: Nominations: Main Page Redesign. It'll be open for 24 hours, and everybody is invited to nominate and second the options that you'd like us all to vote on.

For this Nominations page, I'd like to try out the rule that you can only sign on the page once -- either to nominate something or second something. That's listed on the Vote Page policy as a guideline rather than a rule, but I'd like to see how it works here. I think it'll help more people to feel like they're part of the process, and it challenges everyone to think carefully about how they want to "spend" their nomination. If people aren't satisfied with the way that turns out, then we can change it.

So go ahead and nominate away! You can find links to lots of different options to nominate on this page, in the Current Events archive, on Talk:Main Page, and maybe other places too. You can also nominate "No change" if you want the Main Page to stay the way it is. -- Danny Toughpigs 18:17, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Images Wanted page
I just set up a new Images Wanted page, a place for people to list pages where we need an image (or a better quality image than the one that we have). Listing a page there will encourage other contributors to scan and upload their images. It's already working, so go check it out! -- Danny Toughpigs 03:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Muppet Wiki Vote Page policy
This has kind of gotten lost in the fold, so I thought I'd bump it up to the top. If anyone hasn't seen it yet, Brad started a Muppet Wiki Vote Page policy in response to recent discussions as seen below. I encourage regular contributors to check it out and discuss ideas and changes on the article's talk page. I'd like to give everyone sufficient time to familiarize themselves with it before we go ahead and open up voting on particular items. -- Scott Scarecroe 16:47, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * It's been up for a few days now, without inviting much in the way of comment. Can we wave our wands and call that a policy, at least for now? We can take it out for a spin, and if it doesn't work, then we can fix it up again. What do you say? -- Danny Toughpigs 00:14, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Zounds zpiffy to me. -- Scott Scarecroe 00:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed --Pantalones 00:43, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Ditto. --Andrew, Aleal 00:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Beautiful. So the first item of business, obviously, is the Main Page redesign. Do we want to set up another Nomination page? -- Danny Toughpigs 02:10, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The policy looks great! I think we should start up the Main Page Redesign nominations/vote process again to get the issue resolved before we all forget what the issue was. The policy looks good, let's put it to work! -- BradFraggle 05:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Anything Muppet template
I created a new template for Anything Muppet Patterns. That sentence was just sort of sitting there on the article pages like a lump, so I thought it would be helpful to give it a place to live.

The template is called Template:Am, and you can use it by adding. You don't need to use brackets; it'll make the pattern name into a link.

The AM box should go underneath the picture, the same way that the designer box does. -- Danny Toughpigs 14:03, 20 March 2006 (UTC)