Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-5215338-20140118135132

No, there's nothing wrong with it. So why fix what isn't broken? Because it can be done better. This site discussion is meant to improve the Sonic News Network's Manual of Style, not fix it.

Click the random page button. And again. And again. Chances are, the three pages you visited were all different kinds of pages. Maybe one was a character, the second a level, the third only a gimmick. We have all kinds of articles here. This gives rise to a problem. The format for pages has never been established. As our Manual of Style says, the style of pages is generally up to the editors involved. But this leads to scrambled headers, misplaced information, etc. Formatting has been tough to handle at times, but we can establish a standard format for different kinds of pages.

How would we go about doing this? Just expand our Manual of Style to include format pages. Ultra, MarioSonic, and I have been working on rough drafts of these mini-manuals-of-style. Want to know how to format a page for a character? Boom. Wanna see the format for an article about a level? No prob. How about games? Got it covered.

I will admit that this is in no sense a pressing problem. This isn't something that absolutely must be done, but I think it would make pages less confusing for readers and make the process of creating and editing pages more understandable. I don't want this to be a set of unofficial guidelines that a few editors feel like following (although that's what'll happen if this isn't made official). All I want to do is officially establish a standard format for different kinds of articles.

Would this improve the reading and the editing experiences of the Sonic News Network? Please leave your opinion below. 