Basic guidelines for these need to be established badly, so here are some thoughts from me. (We will call them "T&A" pages for short.)
- Should they utilize their own namespace? (E.g., "T&A:<insert name of individual page here>")
- How should they be named? V named one in the form of a question -- "Where do Angels come from?" -- but I said that "Origin of Angels" would be better. Simple, straightforward, to-the-point. Similarly: "EVA-00's Soul", "EVA-01 and Lilith" (investigating their relationship), "Angel versus Human" (to cover the topic of what the hell these two terms are supposed to mean in the show), and so on.
- How should the pages be organized? That is, a general layout should be established, I suppose by experimenting and seeing what works best. I should note that before attempting to tackle one of these pages, compiling an outline of what you want to "hit" would be best.
- T&A pages would come in two brands: Tier-1 and Tier-2.
- Tier-1 would be for people who just want things quick and to the point, and don't really care about seeing the grotesque details; these would be written NPOV, sort of like the encyclopedic articles.
- Tier-2 would be the uber-expanded, geeky versions that draw from the forum threads where these issues were already discussed. (If they haven't been discussed/forwarded in a group setting, why the hell are you writing about them?) They would have the same title as the Tier-1 page, only with "_(In-Depth)" appended to the end.
Considering FGP's heart and soul rests with the "family"/network of geeks that became established around Summer 2003 (yes, when I showed up), and extends into the current day and over to such places as EMF (of course), discussions within this community are to serve as the direct basis for In-Depth pages.
My plan is for In-Depth pages to directly draw from the relevant threads/discussions necessary to present the required ideas. This requires a bit of search and editing work, but Ornette can help with the search part, and we still have old various old geezers around to provide aid. Aside from headings, In-Depth pages would be presented in a sort of "Dialogue" format. - Whoever compiles a particular In-Depth page would keep track of every thread (and whatever else) referenced. Feasibly, the Tier-1 page would just be a simplified version of whatever the Tier-2 page ends up being, so listing its own references would ultimately be redundant. But, pending the creation of both Tier-1 and -2 pages, anyone creating the former who DOES reference threads (or anything else, for that matter) is required to cite them. (I haven't been able to get the citation mechanism to work any which way, so, if you can't either, a ghetto improvision can always suffice for the time being.)
Next week (hopefully) I'll pick a topic and attempt to do some kind of primordial In-Depth page, just to see how feasible it actually is. Meantime, I suppose people can stick to fooling around with Tier-1.
Okay, I suppose I'm through for now. DISCUSS, BITCHES.