The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive 5

Anyone is able to start a discussion but make sure you discuss issues in the proper heading, please. Makiah (talk) 02:07, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Policy on Writing and Editing Player stories

I would like to introduce some policy on writing and editing Player stories. Should the player stories submitted be left as-is or edited? Anything inappropriate or that contradicts existing policy should be removed immediately of course. But a lot of the stories have misspellings, bad grammar, etc. I think we need some guidelines on how much we (the editors) are allowed to edit, yet still resemble the personal style of the writer, which is the whole point of having these sections.

Points to consider:

• How long should a story be?
  • We don't want them to write a novel. I suggest one paragraph, 3 to 5 sentences.
• Should links to other premade Sims be included if mentioned
  • I don't really care, but it would mean a lot of editing
• Spelling & Grammar
  • I think this should be corrected
• User tags, signatures, etc.
  • I think these should be kept
• Personal opinions
  • I think these should be kept

Any other suggestions?

-- A morris 00:22, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

I think that's a great idea. Before I had an idea that the player stories be put on the talk pages but it would require a lot of work. However with the user tags and signatures I believe that they should put ~~~~ after their player story whether they are a anonymous user or not. If a player links to other pre made sims that should be okay to. On the idea that if it was on a talk page we wouldn't have the problem of bad spelling and grammar on the actual informational part of the page. --Makiah (talk) 16:19, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

I think moving the player stories to the talk page is a good idea. A morris 19:40, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

I've started moving some stories to their talk page. I moved a really long story from Consort Capp's page. I left the others with a note to see the talk page for more. -- A morris 14:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

I had another idea. That of placing the player stories on a subpage of the character's page, ex. Bella Goth/player stories. That way the stories are on their own page and can even be placed in a "Player stories" category. The {{Sim}} can be edited to automatically link to the subpage as well. -- a_morris 02:21, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Missing premade families

Where are the families from the colleges, like Roxie Sharp and the sorority girls and such? They are still kind of a premade family, I think they should be included.

Good idea! Why don't you write them? Also, adding links to the characters from their neighborhoods, would be good. -- a_morris 20:59, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Characters of Pleasant Valley

There is "no trustworthy" link that cites the characters of The Sims 3 and should be confirmed by EA or The Sims 3. That information is speculation thus making it misleading and should be deleted! I'm going to delete it if someone else doesn't create a new article which says 'Speculation on The Sims 3' and put that worthless infomation in it.

The title in the article with most of the speculation in it is 'Neighborhood Continuity'

F.Y.I. when questions were mentioned to The Sims 3 in relation to characters they typically responded with petty answers and could not confirm anything buy they did say "we're giving the game a fresh start,a new leap, in hopes for the sucess of the title"

Mrs. Crumblebottom is the only character confirmed in the game as of 22/7/08 - not nesseceraly meaning shes the only one lead onto this title but is confirmed.

You are right that speculation about The Sims 2 characters should not be included in the article. It has been removed. You must be a bit lenient as the game is still under developement and we have placed a disclaimer at the top of the page to that effect. Any cites and additional information you have about The Sims 3 is greatly appreciated. -- a_morris 00:05, 10 October 2008 (UTC)