User talk:Badwolff

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Hi! I wanted to respond to your recent comment to Thread:130306. It's not really appropriate to sidetrack a forum discussion, so I've come here. I'm concerned that you feel your idea was rejected but then accepted when someone else posted it. I've read through the thread, but I'd like you to be more specific. You can leave a message for me on my talk page. Thanks! Shambala108 ☎  03:42, May 16, 2013 (UTC)
 * Just letting you know that I will take a second look at the discussion thread based on your reply to my talk page. I'll get back to you when I've finished. Shambala108 ☎  15:32, May 20, 2013 (UTC)

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There are a few reasons why we don't list all possible discussion boards in the top-of-page navigation. A big one is that the board list isn't dynamic. We drop in new boards as the situation arises. So we'd have to keep revisiting the thing every time we added a new board. Also, space is limited in that navigation area, and we need to make hard choices about what goes there. Finally, this wiki uses its discussion areas in ways that are different to the normal Wikia wikis. We are actively trying to promote the forum that is most emblematic of the kind of forum usage our local policies encourage.

To accommodate these various ambitions, we:
 * offer a link to Special:Forum (click on Community, rather than just mousing-over it). As more boards are added, we don't have to worry about updating the top navigation. However, perhaps it's not obvious that "Community" is clickable, so I will be taking a look at how to make that more obvious.
 * highlight Board:The Panopticon because it's the oldest forum and has been a part of the wiki, in one form or another, since 2005. As you can tell by a simple comparison of number of posts, it's far and away the most important forum we have.
 * include Howling:The Howling because it's a specialised board, wherein spoilers are allowed
 * give you a link to the Theory namespace, where you can then chose to go to either the Discontinuity stuff or the Timeline stuff.

In other words, the organisational "mantra" of that part of the navigation is to give links to the top level of our various discussion areas, with a nod to only the very most important single board.

That addresses the bulk of your message. But the last paragraph is a little mystifying to me. I don't know what you mean when you say that "admin are frequently telling people not to discuss the content of the episodes on the talk pages".

But let me take a guess.

We would indeed tell you not to discuss just the content of the episodes on the pages, but we wouldn't normally prevent discussion if it had to do with the editing of the article. Without seeing a specific example, I'm not sure, but if an admin has stopped just a simple, fannish discussion of an episode on a talk page, then they've correctly interpreted our discussion policy. Indeed, as is explicitly stated at T:NOT BOARD, this isn't a place that's big on social discussion of episodes. We do allow some discussion at Howling:The Howling, but even those discussions should be had with a view to somehow improving the wiki.

Our rules about discussion are much closer to Wikipedia's than the average Wikia wiki's. We discuss in order to improve our articles. Period. So making all the discussion board options more apparent on the navigation area likely wouldn't help the situation you described, if I've divined your meaning correctly. There is no forum where general chatter about an episode is allowed. If you want that, Gallifrey Base and other "pure forums" are out there. 21:20: Tue 21 May 2013