User:RinasaurusRex/Sandbox

todo: Go through screencaps for files that are out of date. We've got some from, like... a couple layout changes ago.

todo: Standardize how we cite forum posts. Maybe make a template for it. Just a plain forum url is aesthetically unpleasant and also not super helpful unless you route through to see what the actual post is. maybe standard text like "Forum from ${PERSON} on thread ${TITLE}. ${LINK}"

todo: Make sure all event articles have redirects from "[EVENT NAME] [YEAR]" to the article (eg, "Halloween 2015" => "Brewing Mischief").

todo: create main article for Dragon Cave Birthdays so we can empty out these very long category pages...

Undefined stripes
category = Standard dragons notcategory = Striped breeding: Black‏‎ notcategory = Striped breeding: Blue notcategory = Striped breeding: Green notcategory = Striped breeding: Red notcategory = Striped breeding: White ordermethod = sortkey format = \n,%PAGE%\n,,

Spoiler Policy issues
So wiki spoiler policy is that all new releases/ongoing events should be documented in CBR until the end of the release/event. No new articles created, or articles updated until then. Hasn't been an issue until this last holiday, which saw a return of old holiday mini-games. Some slight gameplay differences between original and current runs of the mini-games caused confusion, spoiler notices directing people to CBR for up-to-date info were largely ineffective

I don't love the idea of just gutting the spoiler policy, bc it is more efficient to keep things central until information is finalized. Better plan may be to restructure holiday event articles. instead of Holiday Cooking being for the 2012 Holiday event, it can be just for the mini-game? Create a new Holiday 2012 event article that explains the extras around the mini-game for that year (holiday raffle, red-star recipes counting as raffle tickets, etc). Might reduce the chances of having things that change between uses of the mini-games?

Category cleanup
Need to finish standardizing category names

also need to go through categories and define what they should contain because there's a lot of tangles in these trees


 * Releases (and events?) should be in  format Releases now follow naming convention (except Originals, which i don't quite know what to do with yet)
 * Categories should be plural where applicable (eg, Sprites vs. Sprite)
 * Categories should be sentence case rather than Title Case (eg, Western dragons vs. Western Dragons)
 * Articles should also be sentence case rather than title case but that's another project
 * Standardize terminology to in-game canon (eg, Christmas -> Holiday, DC Drakes -> Drakes)

People Categories
Should just make all people-articles as standard articles. Can transclude into categories for information if we need to, or just link to person article. Articles can DPL the category contents for easy viewing. Saves us having to do all the  links.