User:The Inexistent/Draft

Some of you may be reading this forum title and thinking "is this about how our wiki is dead and The_Inexistent wants us to merge back to The Keyhole?". Well, I am here to inform you that that is not the case. In fact, it is the situation in reverse.

For those of you who still edit on Wikia, follow the Wikia staff's blog, or have admin rights on a Wikia wiki, you might of heard or were contacted about Wikia's brilliant new idea to steal Facebook's layout. They are currently in the process of going through all of their wikis and replacing all user talk pages with their new "message wall", an [undisableable] feature that removes all content from talk pages, replacing them with locked archives.

So, long story short, Wikia has succeeded in driving away the community of the Kingdom Hearts Wiki twice, yes, that's right, twice.

I found out about this the first day Wikia unveiled their plans for it. I was on #wikia-kingdomhearts, and Sove linked it to me. Dark-EnigmaXIII and I then started to discuss it, and the fate of The Keyhole. DE and I were essentially on the same page, both finding the same flaws and hating the same errors with Wikia's new "update". From there, it stemmed into a conversation about DE's thoughts for the future of The Keyhole. He then mentioned that, if this feature was moderately unbearable/ unfixable, he thought the wikis should remerge. I, of course, loved this idea; it would combine our nearly inactive wiki and their excessively active wiki; our cold wiki, and their hot wiki. It would take officiality and combine it with content, that, while not needed, people simply enjoy.

So, in my flurry of excitement, I wrote up a draft of what would happen if the wikis merged, as it, by that point, was a serious possibility. I showed it to both DE and Sox, and we discussed it and revised it as necessary. I aimed in the middle; not too conservative, not too liberal.  In the end, the plan shouldn't be too shocking to either party. It should make KHWiki a far more enjoyable and active place. SO...


 * Articles
 * 'The Best revisions of major pages will be kept, and then revised until they are of a high quality.
 * '''This one should be obvious, but I had to include it to be thorough. Articles like Sora, Riku, and Master Xehanort will obviously be updated, while pages like Glut and Piglet probably won't need much change.
 * Quote pages will be kept
 * KHWikians: have you looked at these? They show us to things: 1, that their community has brilliant ideas.  2, that they are willing to watch YouTube videos for hours just to get some quotes for their wiki.  Plus, these things are fun to read, and add a great depth of understanding to the character of a character.  These would be a wonderful supplement to any article, and show the devotion of the community.
 * The KH3D articles will be kept.
 * Yes, all of them. HOWEVER, they will all be thoroughly cited and speculation free.
 * All stubs will be kept.
 * Even if there is little to them, content is still content. And content draws.  The same can be said for redirects and various other pages.
 * Images
 * Renders will be used as the lead image if the official image is of low quality, does not encapsulate the subject, or is incomplete.
 * Guys, a lot of the official images suck. And a lot of the renders rock, which brings me to my next point, which is really a sub point:
 * ALL of DE's renders will be kept, and must be incorporated somewhere in the article, if not as the lead image.
 * Yes. I mean really, his stuff is great, and is almost, if not on par with Shard's, which, as well all know, is great.
 * The galleries need to be kept from the Keyhole.
 * Mostly because they are really full, and encompass a lot more than ours do.
 * User
 * The Lanes Between will be kept
 * But only if the owners want to. I don't know if it should be official, or if it could be a personal arena, or whatever.  All other personal things will also be kept, because they really are a lot of fun, and, as I've seen, don't really distract the dedicated editors from editing (ex. The Puzzling Aqua).  Let it also be noted that I'll discuss FU with Roxas.
 * Staff
 * Bureaucrats: Kryten, Neumannz, DE, and Sox.
 * Admins: All current
 * Mods: All current
 * I think the best plan is just to mash them all together. Some elections might need to happen, but that can be addressed later.
 * Walkthroughs
 * User generated walkthroughs will be linked to.
 * I... I really don't know what to do with these. I just feel that user walkthroughs need to be shown off.
 * KHWiki: pages
 * Main page will be redesigned.
 * Seeing as we've danced around this for months, we might as well do it now, using elements from both pages.
 * MediaWiki
 * Sox/ Erry will be in charge of the skins, and they can discuss it.
 * Yup.

IN THE EVENT OF A MERGE: