Forum:A Few Main Page Changes

The title of this forum says it all. So:

It's nice and all that we have the whole Featured User thing, but I'm kind of questioning the layout of it at the moment. I rather shoot for a more professional layout for it, because we are indeed a wiki, not a playground. I'm not saying the questions or responses are bad, it's everything else. The intro is probably okay, but I think it could be a bit less silly. After the poll where users and anons vote for the next featured user is my problem. No one really answers the question of the month anyways, and we already have a poll, don't we? Why not remove it completely? If we do end up keeping it, I honestly think Kagimizu should be more neutral and remove his signature, remove the "ANSWER OR ELSE!!!" bit, and even remove the "get back to editing" part. It'd honestly look much better if we ended the Featured User section with the next FU Poll, so I suggest removing the question of the month.

I also think we should remove the candidates for deletion section on the main page. Only administrators can delete articles anyways, and there is not very many times when we "discuss" deleting articles, and when we do, users who are active find them one way or another. I doubt anyone has found that link of too much use, and it can probably be removed. There might be a counter-argument for this one, as I have just recently thought of it and I'm probably missing something about that being there.

I'd also kind of like to open up a suggestions for polls idea for the Poll's talk page. Voting won't be necessary on it, I already know most of the polls that have already been done, and I can look through the history myself to see which one's have been done (and repeating one from a while ago isn't that big of a deal), it's unnecessary, yes, but we could get some interesting ideas out of it, and to be honest, my ides aren't the best in the world, either. Below the poll we can do something similar to the featured article where we say "Suggest a Poll", and I can cross out the ones that have been done, and I can cross out the ones chosen each week. Not necessary, but something to consider.

I know it has been suggested before, but maybe~ we should consider moving the Site Discussions up one spot, I don't know what was decided before, but I'm not sure. I'm not even sure on this myself, so we'll see, I just threw this one in here because it popped into my head as I was writing this up. --

I think we should get rid of the "ANSWER OR ELSE!!!" part. I have always found it disturbing. Also what if a new user comes on our site and reads that? They might think were some rough house or something. But I don't think the Site Discussions need to be moved. I think it's good the way it is. And I don't think we need the monthly question thing. I don't even use it. And I don't think anyone else does either. -- Will   Rose   06:14, July 20, 2012 (UTC)

I support the changes you propose, except for moving the Site Discussions header up one spot. I personally think it's fine where it is. Lloyd the Cat "I don't die. I just go on adventures."  06:17, July 20, 2012 (UTC)

...Yea~ Went ahead and slashed that out, tested it in a sandbox wiki and it looked off. -- 06:19, July 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * I fully support these changes. For quite a while I've been considering ways to suggest changes to the FU in particular. Every new FU, we get an apology at the top for it being late, but that only serves to draw attention to the issue. If the apology wasn't there, nobody would really care. I also don't like the monthly question, the ridiculous threat, the reminder to get back to work (not least because it has the word "around" used twice too close together) or the fact that Kagi's (or anyone's) signature is on the main page.
 * On the 'Helping Out' section, I also think we should get rid of the broken redirects line (which also require admins to delete), old articles (because who cares?), and maybe unused categories.
 * I wish the heading for the poll said 'Poll' instead of 'Weekly Poll', but that requires image editing so is slightly harder to do well.
 * Also, I think it's a shame that the Sonic header (for Upcoming Games) is on the one section that only appears part time, and which also happens to be the smallest section. I don't have a suggestion for fixing that, though. -- Supermorff (talk) 07:24, July 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'd be glad to edit the Poll header to say "Poll", I just need to find out the font they used. As for the Upcoming Games header, I can make Featured User Sonic, and make Upcoming Games whoever else, I just need to know the font. (I can keep the header and all the same). -- 08:19, July 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * We could get rid of Uncategorized Templates as well? -- 10:41, July 20, 2012 (UTC)

Though slightly reluctant, I support having these changes implemented. 09:11, July 20, 2012 (UTC)