Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6218837-20150310023643/@comment-24133975-20150311204159

652Graystripe wrote: Awright.

So, my thoughts on this? I think that the policies should be relaxed to a more comfortable "guidelines" and made to include some tips on idea creation. We'd have to work to make sure it didn't become forceful, however. Given that this wiki is more or less used by younger users, I feel that this would be the wrong way to take the policies. Relaxing them and turning them into loose guidelines would allow users to unintentionally, and maybe intentionally, bend the rules to their liking. The former probably being more of a problem than the latter. Based on that, and some more things that I will address below, I believe that they should be left as policies.

SilverHexxitFights wrote: It's depressing to say this, but most people who are guilty of what's described here often don't read rules or think they "need help." Something a little more useful like a "read this before creating ideas; it'll help" could work, maybe. I think this might be able to be remedied. What we'll have to do is this, I think: Maybe we can get points like these across to the community by having links to them everywhere.
 * Add a link to an official page creation guide. (More on this below.)
 * (As Scyther suggested.) Add a link to the page formatting guidelines and the page creation guide to the welcome message.
 * Add links to both of those guides in the navigation bar.
 * Add links to both of those guides in the community corner.
 * And finally, we'll have to add links to both of those in editing message that will appear whenever someone is either creating or editing an article. (Will figure out the coding for this.)

There would be a few things to do before being able to even undertake this, though: Any thoughts on this?
 * A page creation guide would have to be written.
 * I'm thinking that this guide could use elements from this thread and Silver's guidelines to create it.
 * The page formatting guide would have to be heavily updated to encompass all the different formatting styles that the wiki uses.
 * And finally, we would have to tackle all the updates. I think we could probably just do some minor updates to just add links to the two pages, and then take on the bigger updates at a later date.
 * The policies will likely need to be updated for this, too. That's on my to-do list, so I can get to that in the near future.