Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24553580-20170703210817

I've never really had to create a naming policy since I've usually always been the one maintaining the wiki. But with the recent increase in activity, which is awesome by the way, it's also generated discussions on certain topics, most recently what the Chapter pages should be named. Currently, I had the pages named after the official titles of the chapter, with other pages redirecting to the official name. For example: Chapter 0 will redirect to Cracker & Third Selection. However, it's recently come to my attention that this format may make finding chapters difficult so I wanted to ask the community to see if they prefer this format or would like to something different.

I've taken a look at how other wiki's name their chapter pages and I've narrowed down to four different options:

Example:

Title- Cracker & Third Selection Number - 0 Series - The Seven Magicians


 * 1) Title [Current] - Cracker & Third Selection
 * 2) Series: Number - The Seven Magicians: Chapter 0
 * 3) Number (Series) - Chapter 0 (The Seven Magicians)
 * 4) Series Number: Title - The Seven Magicians Chapter 0: Cracker & Third Selection

I've already went ahead and renamed some of the pages to each of the format as examples as well.


 * The Girl of the Stealth Magic
 * Levi Ninden: Chapter 2
 * Chapter 3 (Levi Ninden)
 * Levi Ninden Chapter 4: The Suppression of the Evil Threat

Anyways, I would like to see what everyone's preference is, please vote on http://www.strawpoll.me/13345303. I will let this poll run for about two weeks to decide the naming policy for Chapter pages. So for the meantime, please avoid renaming or creating chapter pages until a decision has been made. If you have any questions or comments, please write below.

Additional Clarifications:

Edit: 7/9
 * For the current option, titles should be the official English translations, so in the case of the main series, the Yen Press translations. For chapters or series that have not been released yet or do not have an official release, fan translations should be fine until such an official release occurs. Otherwise, I may suggest using the second most popular format in the meantime.
 * Just because one format is chosen, this does not mean pages with the other format names cannot be created, they simply need to redirect to the main page. Using the above example again, the page could be named "Cracker & Third Selection", but a page titled "Chapter 0 (The Seven Magicians)" could be created which redirects to "Cracker & Third Selection".

Results:

I think I'm going to officially end the poll halfway since there has not been much participation as I had hoped. However, judging by those who did participate so far, there does seem to be a slight inclination towards the current format using just the chapter title as the page name. So for now, I will be enforcing the current format using the chapter titles as the official policy for chapter pages. Failure to comply continuously will result in a temporary ban if necessary. However, I will state that does not mean pages with different formats cannot be created or referred to in other pages, they must simply redirect to the main chapter page. I will create a naming policy page in the near future with more details. Thank you for your participation. 