Forum:Role Playing Game Pages

''Feel free to treat this like a talk page and use : to reply with comments on specific sections. This one is going to be a fairly long discussion with many various things that will need to be discussed as we head towards some sort of consensus.''

Since the RP site pages have become a recent larger issue I feel it would be a good time to begin discussing the matter and cover some of the details. I have a few specific proposals I'd like to discuss and get input on before things head into policy-writing and things like that. Kitsufox Fox's Den 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Update Frequency
I feel that some level of update frequency needs to be required. I'm thinking something like once a month, even if it's just opening the page, entering 'nothing new to report' in the edit summary and hitting submit. That way people can't just make a page and then vanish into the abyss. What does everything think? Should it be longer than this? Should we not require such a thing? Kitsufox Fox's Den 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Marking of Pages
I feel that Pages need to be marked clearly. Step one is that RP pages should be included in both the Online Phenomenon and Role Play Phenomenon Categories. I also feel that a Template for the top of the pages should be created that reads something akin to "This page documents a Role Playing Game and any plot information located here in is of Fan Creation". Thoughts, Ideas, input? Kitsufox Fox's Den 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Fanon Characters
Few different topics on this.

Inclusion
I think Fanon Characters from established games should be permitted. Maybe even for not-so-established games, and do something like make them on sub-pages of the RP Site Article. More thoughts?, Feelings?, Other Stuff? Kitsufox Fox's Den

Templates
My plan is for there to be a template specifically for Fanon Characters that imitates the Cat Character Template, and one to place at the top describing the fact that it's a Fanon Character. Kitsufox Fox's Den 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Category
I think a Master Category titled "Fanon Characters" should be created that all fanon characters are in should be created, and then each category should be created as a Sub-Category with the title of "Gamename characters". Each category should be clearly marked as a list of fanon characters, and perhaps a template for the top, making it 1000% clear that it's fanon information. What do y'all think? Kitsufox Fox's Den 17:24, 14 December 2007 (UTC)