The start of the New Year has been a bit slow on BW but recently ever-reliable editor Claude has been updating articles at a steady pace.
NPOV
Claude has been especially brave, tackling what is sometimes a sensitive issue: NPOV. While obviously BW will have a pro-LEGO® products bias we are supposed to be creating articles with a Neutral Point Of View. Many times new BW authors want to describe MOCs or themes or websites they or their friends have created using words like best, awesome, etc. These and other biases (both positive and negative) should be avoided or replaced with factual, balanced information.
BW is not a place to have arguments or debates but, in my opinion, a place to record the results of (and occasionally history of) these debates. Thanks to Claude and the rest of team for making so many articles better.
-Ted
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, December 4, 2009
Prototypes and Websites and staying current
It is time to rethink some of the organization and categories on BrickWiki in light of the changing nature of the online world.
Websites
This category used to contain a lot of articles on LEGO Users Groups. In an age where almost every organization and business has a website it seemed ludicrous to fill the category with every website out there.
I have changed that by removing LUGs from websites and re-purposing an old, inactive category: LUGs as a sub-category of acronyms. This allows people to find LUGs and LTCs by either looking up their name in Fan Groups or by their acronyms in LUGs.
Prototypes
This category has puzzled me for a while. Given that LEGO can be used to build anything are we really saying that BW should host articles on anything that can be built? In an age where we can use Google and Wikipedia to look up such information I see no reason to spend time collecting non-LEGO information on BW.
I have marked the page for deletion and you can object or agree on the talk page. I will try to give it some time before starting to delete but if you have something to say please speak up now.
Websites
This category used to contain a lot of articles on LEGO Users Groups. In an age where almost every organization and business has a website it seemed ludicrous to fill the category with every website out there.
I have changed that by removing LUGs from websites and re-purposing an old, inactive category: LUGs as a sub-category of acronyms. This allows people to find LUGs and LTCs by either looking up their name in Fan Groups or by their acronyms in LUGs.
Prototypes
This category has puzzled me for a while. Given that LEGO can be used to build anything are we really saying that BW should host articles on anything that can be built? In an age where we can use Google and Wikipedia to look up such information I see no reason to spend time collecting non-LEGO information on BW.
I have marked the page for deletion and you can object or agree on the talk page. I will try to give it some time before starting to delete but if you have something to say please speak up now.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Updating Templates
There has been some discussion around updating the template for LUGs.
If anyone has ideas on how a new template should look now would be a good time to share. Here in the comments or on the discussion page.
If anyone has ideas on how a new template should look now would be a good time to share. Here in the comments or on the discussion page.
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