Gunsopedia talk:Guidelines

Before anyone asks

Yes, I know that these policies will mean that some work that has already been done will need to be done again and some will pull their hair out over it, but I really do think that this is going to save everyone a LOT of grief down the road. As usual, I'm open to suggestions... --Dennis (talk) 12:49, 21 April 2013 (CDT)

• YA THINK?? Dont mind me saying so but a lot of grief could have been saved by dong this in the first place. just sayin. But I see one problem with your plan here - if Im reading your toolbox right, youre still going to be transcluding the date page. Why transclude it and bother with all that <noinclude> noneselse in the first place? Why not just
  1. make a template that just calls to the other pages like 'whenever/whatever'
  2. fill the template out into every date page so ANY changes can be made globally from the template itself
  3. ...?
  4. PROFIT!

The main thing -thats bugging me at least- is that every little change has to be done on a kajillion pages just to conform. Its nuts. Better one template on every page. Changes? BAM! one edit. Done. Just sayin. --ComAdmin (talk) 14:54, 21 April 2013 (CDT)

• PS- you want any of the stuff already done done again? You do it. Just sayin. --ComAdmin (talk) 14:55, 21 April 2013 (CDT)
  • Okay, point taken. This, however, will mean having to create yet another bunch of pages — <date>/events — so that the 'happened today' box will be able to be ported to the front page properly. The idea occurred to me before but I had to ask: are we in the mood to make yet another 366 pages? In addition to the ones we need to modify already? just sayin, mirite? --Dennis (talk) 16:29, 21 April 2013 (CDT)

• OT: Wow. I go away for a while and everything gets all ------ weird. Nice to see regsitrations are back again (I'm here aren't I?) but why can't I edit my own page? All there is is a view source tab at the top of the page. Can't use my sandbox either. What's with that? --Anonymous (talk) 15:27, 21 April 2013 (CDT)
  • HEY! good to see ya back! To answer your question: long story short is you'll be able to edit your page in 3 days. It's a change to the config I had to make to bugger up the spammers before I lost my marbles... --Dennis (talk) 16:29, 21 April 2013 (CDT)