Forum:Panopticon archives

Forums: Archive index >  Welcome to the Panopticon's archives! This archive contains discussions which originally appeared at the Panopticon. Thus, these discussions have to do with matters of policy and procedure that help to maintain and develop this wiki. Restarting an archived conversation Should you wish to reply to a topic in this forum, start a new topic in the Panopticon forum and add a link to the archived discussion in your new one. Good titles for reopening an archived discussion typically retain the original title somewhere in the new title. This practice allows a search for the topic name to reveal both the old and new discussions. For example, if there was an archived discussion here called Forum:Collective nouns, a good title for the re-opened discussion would be Forum:Collective nouns revisited or Forum:Collective nouns again or Forum:Collective nouns: the next generation. Anything that retains the original title is a good choice.

Adding to this archive To add topics to this archive simply replace the header at the top of any Panopticon forum topic which usually looks like this:

with this:

When you add a thread to this archive, please make sure it placed into one of the following categories: category=Forum thread types shownamespace=false columns=3 Once placed into one of these categories, the thread will sort under the appropriate heading in the thread list below. Clicking on one of the above categories will give you a brief description of the kind of threads it contains.

Thread list
In active forums, threads are sorted by the time the thread was last edited. That is, the threads that have been most recently edited are at the top. That's not a useful way to organise things in an archive, however. Here, the threads are in reverse order of creation. As you go further down the list, you go back in time. Thus, in general, the threads at the bottom of each category describe a state of the wiki furthest removed from today's reality.

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Archived discussions that need to be sorted
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