User:MuppetArchives/Current Events 05 (Feb 2006)

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

Designer Box Template
Greetings, citizens! There's current experimentation with a new designers template along the same lines as the performer template, to make information on who designed and/or fabricated our favorite puppets. It's also currently flexible enough to use for animated characters. Right now, the test cases are Scred and Waldo C. Graphic. Comments and suggestions are welcomed here, or at Template talk:Designer. --Andrew, Aleal 05:18, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Top 25 Muppet Wiki posters
Hey, we've got working stats again, so I've brought back the Top 25 Muppet Wiki posters list. Stop by and see where you rank! Of course, quality is more important than quantity, but still, quantity is nice, isn't it? -- Danny Toughpigs 22:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Featured Wikicity
As announced, Joe nominated us for Featured Wikicity a few weeks ago and we got the most votes. The Wikicities people haven't stepped up to do anything about it yet, so I figured with the second week of the month upon us, I'd go ahead and do it myself. Check it out on the main page and edit Featured_Wikicity/Muppet/Blurb for any changes. -- Scott Scarecroe 16:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * You're hilarious. -- Danny Toughpigs 17:03, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I just filled out the blurb a little bit. If anybody else wants to mess with it, please go ahead. Once you edit the blurb, then you have to do a little edit on the Wikicities Main Page to get it to reload the blurb template. -- Danny Toughpigs 17:19, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Hooray! We are famous! -- JParanoid 18:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk Pages
When answering questions on talk pages, don't forget to add that information to the article. Otherwise the talk box might be removed without the question having been resolved. -- Scott Scarecroe 16:25, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Andrew is now an admin
Let it be known henceforth to all and sundry that Andrew (User:Aleal) is now an administrator for Muppet Wiki. Scott and I decided to give Andrew admin powers in recognition of his amazing work here over the last month.

Andrew joined the wiki on January 6th, and he's made over 1200 page edits since then -- adding new information, revising, organizing categories, and doing general housekeeping. He's helped out a lot with spotting and reverting vandalism, and he's shown in many ways that he cares about the quality and integrity of the wiki.

Most importantly, Andrew has demonstrated an eagerness and a talent for collaboration that we want to recognize as a model of wikicitizenship. Good communication is the backbone of this kind of collaborative project, and Andrew is great at it. He posts a lot on article talk pages, and directly to users -- asking for clarification, clearing up misunderstandings, and proposing new ideas. He's gradually been taking on an admin role, and we want to make that official. Andrew, thanks for your great work, and we're happy to be collaborating with you! -- Danny Toughpigs 18:51, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Time Out policy
I'm working on a new Time Out policy for the wiki, to help avoid situations where two editors are changing the same thing back and forth on a page. When I write pages like this, I'm never sure that my explanation makes sense or not. What do folks think of this idea, and the way it's written up? -- Danny Toughpigs 14:31, 6 February 2006 (UTC)


 * It seems written very well to me and seems like it should work. It makes sense anyway, obviously if there's back and forth editing, then there's something going on that needs to be resolved. Agent0042 20:21, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Italics, etc.
Just bumping this topic back up as a reminder. I would move the original discussion up, but I don't want to mess with the archive structure. That discussion is here if you want to see it.

The short version is that titles go in italics. That includes movies, television series, books, album titles and specials. Episode names and songs go in quotations. -- Scott Scarecroe 02:28, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * That's a good point to bring up, or to bump, as it were. I never was sure whether we were aiming for that particular element of style, so I've been consistent with it.  But from now on, italics it is.  -Ryan R PrawnRR 03:11, 5 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I haven't really been following it very well, but I will definitely remember to do it from now on. Agent0042 05:24, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Actors Categories
The discussion was getting all squished again, and anyway we're into a new stage. I accidentally created it first as a page instead of a category, but there's now a Muppet Movies Actors category. --Aleal 01:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I say we go with Muppet Movies Actors (with a subcategory of Muppet Movies Cameos); Muppet TV Shows Actors (with a subcategories of Sesame Street Cast, Muppet Show Guest Stars, and Muppets Tonight Guest Stars); Muppet Specials Actors; and Creature Shop Actors. -- BradFraggle 02:58, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm down with all that, yo. --Aleal 03:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, all the above exist! A lot of migrating still to do, but boy we've accomplished a lot! (Still not sure what to do with the Sesame Street sketch people, but for now, I'm sticking them back in Sesame Street Cast; they can be moved to a subcategory later). --Andrew, Aleal 04:12, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That's awesome! You guys worked like crazy on this today; it's good stuff. There's one general principle that I've been trying to follow with categories, which is that ideally a category should have either articles or subcategories, but not both. If an article has, say, 120 articles and two subcategories, then the subcats sit there at the top of the page, taking up practically the whole screen. That's why, instead of making subcats in a lot of instances, I've been doing the See also: thing at the top of category pages. Just FYI for you guys. -- Danny Toughpigs 04:21, 4 February 2006 (UTC)