User talk:Tangerineduel/Wiki central note

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"Wikia Community Support" 

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(my email address)

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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 4:48 AM

Hi Tangerineduel,

Thank you for your thoughtful note. It is a little bit of a conundrum, but I think you certainly have grounds for honest discussion with the community, and shouldn't be worried about conflict of interest if your state your case plainly.

People who are clever with wiki and template code can do amazing things, but I agree that code which relies on a single user for maintenance or improvement actually decreases the utility of the wiki, especially for new users.

One possible solution would be to move Czech's code to another template name, where s/he can resume work on it if and when they return, and then edit the resulting redirect to restore the desired simpler template.

Thank you for contacting us!

Catherine Munro Wikia Community Team

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On 2009-06-20 08:36:07, (my email address) wrote:

Hi, I'm an admin (and frequent editor) over at the Doctor Who Wiki (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Who_Wiki) and I'm in a little bit of a quandary. A user has made significant changes to one infobox (I might add approved more or less by the user base. (http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox_Comic) Is the infobox in question. Our old infoboxes which are still used across the site on everything *except the comic one* which he said was a test bed for it are still intact and they're relatively easy to edit (through either knowledge or even trial and error and are more or less easy to manipulate for whatever purposes).

They are also more or less functional, they're not as fancy as this newly implemented one, but they worked. (Sorry I tend to ramble as a lead in, I will get to the point) Anyways he's not been around for about 17 days and as the only user who was really fluent in (I'm searching for the word) but fluent in making the whole new infobox work with all its collapsing functions, automation and whatever, the project has come to a halt, leaving the wiki with an oddly disjointed design.

I have tried and failed to "have a go" at it, though this design is far less forgiving than our other (simpler) infoboxes. (this is what one of our more simpler infoboxes looks like; http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Infobox_ClassicTV)

I just wanted to know whether it's within the wikiness to propose a revert to how the infobox was before.

I might also add that I was somewhat vocal about several features of the infobox's features (mostly down to usability of the navigation arrows over text), so I'm debating whether I would have (or as it would appear to have) a conflict of interest if I proposed a revert of this).

Any advice would be helpful.

Thanks.