Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I hereby award Symphony D. the NESing Medal of Merit, for Meritorious Conduct in the field of wiki construction.
A NES Wiki?
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Symphony D.
Deity
Although I would ordinarily not be adverse to praise, my chief directive in undertaking all of this is to inspire you people to write, not to stand in awe. I'm not Ozymandias. Wikis don't work if they don't have content, and content requires editors. If this is ever going to go somewhere, people need to start writing.
Write something. It can be a player profile, or a NES profile. It doesn't matter if it's incredibly disorganized as long as something's there, because we can edit, move, fuse, chop, drop, and rename at any time, but there needs to be information present to begin with to worry about that at all. The more that's there the more there is to edit and build off of, and the easier it is to pull people in.
So, really, don't congratulate me. Write. Spread the word. That would make me glad as to doing some grunt work.
Write something. It can be a player profile, or a NES profile. It doesn't matter if it's incredibly disorganized as long as something's there, because we can edit, move, fuse, chop, drop, and rename at any time, but there needs to be information present to begin with to worry about that at all. The more that's there the more there is to edit and build off of, and the easier it is to pull people in.
So, really, don't congratulate me. Write. Spread the word. That would make me glad as to doing some grunt work.
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
Could someone summarize the current vote tally?
Symphony D.
Deity
6:3 in favor of Wiki-Site with no new work committed to the PBWiki in the interim. Both a de facto and de jure change to Wiki-Site.
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
Then I'll aks for the link to it to be added to the Notice Board. Along with the removal of the CFC wikipedia link, it contains nothing related to NES anymore.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
I dont see how this change would be de jure. I think you are taking the meaning of this phrase out of context.
Having said that me personally, I dont care where we have this, so long as it looks good and we dont have people abusing it.
Symphony D.
Deity
No one else has voted since December 21, leaving the vote at 6:3, which is a clear supermajority. Therefore, by democratic vote to date, Wiki-Site has the clear support of the public--hence de jure; it is the Wiki both in principle and in practice. Until the vote changes, which at this juncture is pointless, it will remain that way, and even if it should change, it is by now de facto since all new work has occured on the Wiki-Site version.
Why we are having these discussions I don't know. It is there, it is newer, larger, and easier to adapt to true Wiki standards, and it needs work. There isn't much to be discussed other than what needs to be written. On that note, I might set up a "Requested Articles" page later on today.
Why we are having these discussions I don't know. It is there, it is newer, larger, and easier to adapt to true Wiki standards, and it needs work. There isn't much to be discussed other than what needs to be written. On that note, I might set up a "Requested Articles" page later on today.
North King
blech
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You're assuming the NES forum is a democracy. This is patently false. Anyway, I might add something to the new Wiki, provided I find the time somewhere.
Symphony D.
Deity
Oh, I'm quite well aware of that. 
It was however the method that was put forward to decide the matter, however farcical, so I have no problem in referencing its results as official when nobody really cares much and they just confirm the truth of the matter anyway.
All I care about is that the Wiki gets enough attention that it wouldn't be possible to browse or transfer the next three months of work in as little time as it took to do so for the first three months of work, and to that end, dithering around with results seems trivial, at least to me--what's done is done now, good or ill. The work is what's important. Everybody here has input simply by virtue of their unique perspective and participation in the various NESes they've been in, and as a result has a huge amount to contribute, no matter how grand or meager their reputation. There's no excuse for anyone not to contribute except laziness. This Wiki is of potentially great importance to the future of the community, and everyone here needs to realize that.
Anyway, glad to hear you're willing to continue on, at any rate.
It was however the method that was put forward to decide the matter, however farcical, so I have no problem in referencing its results as official when nobody really cares much and they just confirm the truth of the matter anyway.All I care about is that the Wiki gets enough attention that it wouldn't be possible to browse or transfer the next three months of work in as little time as it took to do so for the first three months of work, and to that end, dithering around with results seems trivial, at least to me--what's done is done now, good or ill. The work is what's important. Everybody here has input simply by virtue of their unique perspective and participation in the various NESes they've been in, and as a result has a huge amount to contribute, no matter how grand or meager their reputation. There's no excuse for anyone not to contribute except laziness. This Wiki is of potentially great importance to the future of the community, and everyone here needs to realize that.
Anyway, glad to hear you're willing to continue on, at any rate.
Insane_Panda
Deity
Wonderful, absolutely wonderful work on the Wiki, Symphony.
I will contribute something, most likely my own profile (to prevent any of you disparagers from ruining my name!). I suggest we immediately move to make an article on both ITNES and NES2 VI.
I will contribute something, most likely my own profile (to prevent any of you disparagers from ruining my name!
). I suggest we immediately move to make an article on both ITNES and NES2 VI.
Reno
The Studio Ghibli Fanatic
The NES Notice Board has now been updated, even if the title doesn't state it. The link to the NES wiki-site has been added, and the old link to the CFC wikipedia page deleted.
jeps
Arcadefire
Vote for wiki-site. It looks more proffesional and easy to use.
Symphony D.
Deity
Notice added at Apolyton forum. Since we seem to have moved beyond the issue of selecting our workspace, a thread for necessary work has been created as well.
Israelite9191
You should be reading
I would have brought this up in While We Wait, but as that option is no longer available to us I figured taht this was the best option. I don't know if anyone else noticed, but the NESing section of the CFC page on Wikipedia was deleted (I don't believe by a NESer, or a CFC member, if that matters) because of its being unsourced. I undid the edit, but as it stands the issue remains that it is entirely unsourced and likely to be deleted again. If anyone else has any ideas of how we might source it, and indeed if anyone else cares, it should probably be discussed.
Can CFC be placed as a source with a link to our forum?
Symphony D.
Deity
Retroactive deletion.
Sheep
Orange Shrooms!
I do believe that it should be done.
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