User blog:Shadowmaster/Update 1 - Maintenance and Story Reviewing

It's been a while since I've been editing frequently, and I'd like to change that. To coincide with my return, I'd like to make a few announcements concerning my own activities, and the users and policy of the Custom BIONICLE Wiki.

Manual of Style and Layout Guide Enforcement
As I've discussed with some users in the wiki chat, it is my understanding that the bulk of our active editor population consists of relatively new users, at least in comparison to our staff. While I haven't reviewed much of these users' work, and thus, I'm not pointing any fingers, I'd like to cement the importance of our wiki policy. For anyone who has not read our policy, feel free to start here. The most important portions of the policy are the Manual of Style and the Layout Guide, which stress the importance of spelling, grammar, proper punctuation, and page layout.

Starting at some point soon, the admins and I will begin to more actively enforce the Manual of Style and Layout Guide, more so the former. Any page that we determine does not properly meet the Manual of Style or the Layout Guide, we will mark. From that point, you will have a month to revise your page before it is deleted. That's been the procedure for a while now, but I'd like to elaborate on it for all of our users who are unfamiliar with the system. We'll be less strict with the Layout Guide - all that a page needs in that department is really a writer template, a proper infobox template, and headers to separate proper sections.

That about covers this portion of the blog. I just wanted to give you all a heads-up.

Story Reviewing
Now that I'm going to become more active and start reading and writing BIONICLE stories again, I'd like to begin reviewing stories. In what fashion I will be reviewing, I'm not sure of yet, but I think I'd enjoy reviewing stories for anyone who would like. I'll probably make an individual user subpage for accepting review requests later, but for now, if anyone would like for their story to be reviewed, just leave a comment stating the name of their story.

Well, that's about all I can think of for now. I'd love to give this blog a proper outro, but I really can't think of what else to say. Therefore, I leave you with this.

Interpret it as you will.

 Shadow master    (Contribs)   02:49, February 9, 2014 (UTC)