This subpage lists all of the past discussions from the Community Portal. This page provides one way to browse these discussions; others include:
- The Archiving Guideline outlines the archiving of old discussions, including discussions from pages other than just the Community Portal.
- Archive Category is a category system organizing old discussions by topic.
Major Discussions
These are major discussions, including on-going discussions that have not necessarily been resolved. If a discussion is not marked as resolved, you are free to add to the discussion; if you do so, please also add the topic to the Active Discussions list on the main Community Portal so that other editors know that the discussion has been resumed. The discussions are listed in reverse chronological order (based on when the discussion was first started).
Title | Started | Resolved | Topic |
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Unwanted Additions | Dec. 2011 | Discussion of content policies that are largely unofficial | |
Quest Item Redirects | Jan. 2012 | Jan. 2012 | Pointing quest items to quest pages, and how to relay such information |
Oblivion Apparel and Magic Effects | Sep. 2009 | Dec. 2009 | Developing a consistent system for detailing enchanted apparel |
Interwiki Links | May 2008 | May 2008 | Should the site use Interwiki Links for integration with other wikis? |
User Page Warnings | Nov. 2007 | Mar. 2008 | When/how to add/remove warnings to/from user pages |
Aristeo and IRC | Apr. 2007 | Jul. 2007 | Disagreements over protection of pages and the IRC channel |
De-Adminship Request | Feb. 2007 | Feb. 2007 | Request for Aristeo to return to editor status. |
Wikiscrolls Project | Jan. 2007 | Jan. 2007 | A new wiki similar to the UESP. |
Patrollers | Dec. 2006 | Jan. 2007 | Addition of a "Patrollers" category of user, that would have the ability to patrol pages. |
Principles Controversy | Nov. 2006 | Jan. 2007 | Controversy over basic UESP Wiki principles and practices, including Archiving, Civility, Consensus, IRC Usage |
Bread Crumb Trail | Nov. 2006 | Jun. 2009 | Utility and formatting of bread crumb trails. |
Copyright Issues | Nov. 2006 | Dec. 2006 | Use of copyright protected material from Elder Scrolls games. Books, screenshots, maps, etc. |
Mod Info in Articles | Nov. 2006 | Jan. 2008 | When and where unofficial mods should be included in articles, how to organize PC-specific, Xbox-specific, etc. information. |
Morrowind Quest Pages | Oct. 2006 | Dec. 2006 | Proposed reorganization of Morrowind quest pages. Continued discussion belongs at UESPWiki talk:Morrowind Redesign Project |
Anonymous Editing | Oct. 2006 | Dec. 2006 | Desirability of, limits on, and technical implementation of anonymous editing. |
Curing Stupidity | Oct. 2006 | Nov. 2007 | Dealing with very low quality edits |
Archives
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Templates: Old CP Templates subpage |
Archive 1: Feb 2005 – June 2006 |
Archive 2: June 2006 – July 2006 |
Archive 3: Aug 2006 – Sep 2006 |
Archive 4: Sep 2006 – Oct 2006 |
Archive 5: Nov 2006 – Dec 2006 |
Archive 6: Jan 2007 – Feb 2007 |
Archive 7: Feb 2007 – Mar 2007 |
Archive 8: Apr 2007 – Sep 2007 |
Archive 9: Oct 2007 – Nov 2007 |
Archive 10: Dec 2007 – Jan 2008 |
Archive 11: Nov 2007 – Jan 2008 |
Archive 12: Jan 2008 – Feb 2008 |
Archive 13: Mar 2008 – Apr 2008 |
Archive 14: Apr 2008 – June 2008 |
Archive 15: June 2008 – Mar 2009 |
Archive 16: Apr 2009 – Aug 2009 |
Archive 17: July 2009 – Dec 2009 |
Archive 18: Dec 2009 – Jan 2010 |
Archive 19: Jan 2010 – July 2010 |
Archive 20: June 2010 – August 2010 |
Archive 21: September 2010 – October 2010 |
Archive 22: November 2010 – December 2010 |
Archive 23: January 2011 – March 2011 |
Archive 24: April 2011 – May 2011 |
Archive 25: June 2011 – August 2011 |
Archive 26: August 2011 – November 2011 |
Archive 27: November 2011 – December 2011 |
Archive 28: January 2012 |
Archive 29: February 2012 |
Archive 30: March 2012 – April 2012 |
Archive 31: April 2012 – July 2012 |
Archive 32: May 2012 – August 2012 |
Archive 33: August 2012 – November 2012 |
Archive 34: December 2012 – January 2013 |
Archive 35: January 2013 – March 2013 |
Archive 36: February 2013 – April 2013 |
Archive 37: April 2013 – June 2013 |
Archive 38: June 2013 – August 2013 |
Archive 39: August 2013 – November 2013 |
Archive 40: November 2013 – January 2014 |
Archive 41: January 2014 – February 2014 |
Archive 42: February 2014 – March 2014 |
Archive 43: April 2014 – April 2014 |
Archive 44: May 2014 – August 2014 |
Archive 45: August 2014 – December 2014 |
Chronological Archives
These subpages are archived discussions. The pages should not be edited, other than to fix links or other similar required maintenance. If you would like to followup on a discussion from one of these subpages, please start a new discussion on the Community Portal (preferably including a link to the appropriate archived topic). Those marked "not subpaged" have not yet been added to the archiving system, and therefore their individual topics are not listed in the archive categories.
Archiving the Community Portal
Any editor who would like to help update the Community Portal archives is welcome to do so. In addition to actually creating archives, there is maintenance work that can be done ahead of time.
- When new topics are added to the community portal:
- Make sure that community portal is the most appropriate place for the discussion.
- Add a Template:Archive Header template at the top of the topic with any relevant archive categories (not necessary for moved topics or for topics that are of no future interest, e.g., "I'm new here. How do I edit a page?")
- If a topic becomes too long, turn it into a major discussion.
- When the page is ready for archiving (i.e., it's been more than a month since the last archiving and the page is getting long):
- Move all of the topics that have been inactive for at least a week to a new archive page, e.g., UESPWiki:Community_Portal/Archive_15.
- Add
{{Archive Header|none}}
to the top of page; add a {{Archive Footer}} template to the bottom of the page. See Archive 7 for an example of the templates. - Add the new archive page to the list at Archives.
- Go through the new Archive page and move any topics that may potentially be of future interest to a subpage. For example, a topic with the header "Example Topic" would be moved to a page named UESPWiki:Archive/CP_Example_Topic. See Archiving Process for details.
- Before saving each new subpage, move the Archive Header to the top of the subpage. If there is no Archive Header, create one. Fill in the categories if it's obvious what the categories should be. If not, leave the categories blank, e.g.,
{{Archive Header|date=2008 June}}
. That will put the page into the uncategorized list so other editors know that it needs to be fixed. - On the Archive page, replace the section with a transclusion, e.g.,
{{UESPWiki:Archive/CP_Example_Topic}}