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I stumbled upon [[:Category:Proposed policies]] today and noticed that there are presently some pages there that are waiting to be resolved. The discussion on those pages has ''long since'' dried up (over a year ago at least) and I am somewhat at a loss as to what should be done. I personally see some potential in these proposals (particularly the [[The Sims Wiki:Manual of Style/proposed|Proposed Manual of Style]]) but since they haven't been revised or discussed in quite a long time, I think some portions may be outdated. I think one course of action might be to have one or more people work to bring these proposals up-to-date or to otherwise redo them so that they are up-to-date, then bring them forward for discussion. We could also choose to simply archive the proposals and keep them around for posterity, but suspending any potential discussion on those proposals (someone could bring the idea up again, but they'd have to do it in a new article). What do you all think? -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LiR</font>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">speak</font>]] ~ [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">read</font>]]</sup>''' 04:19, September 18, 2012 (UTC)
:I see some merit to all of them, in particular the Image one (anyone who uses IRC a lot knows about my comments I've made about the terrible condition of the file namespace). While I would ''like'' to get some input on them, I don't know if we ''can''. It's notoriously hard to maintain discussion on this wiki, (read: taking three months to reach a conclusion on player stories), but if we can get a conclusion of some sort on them, I'd be really happy with that. {{WHsig|04:27, September 18, 2012 (UTC)}}
== Encouraging community input ==
I've noticed this for a little while now although a point referenced in the Policies discussion above about how things tend to dry up pushed my concern up a notch.
Anyway, I've noticed an awful lot lately that when it comes to putting something on this page, like a proposal, a change or something like that, it always seems to be that administrators are the only ones who actually voice their thoughts. As referenced in the warning template discussion that's currently on this page, the reason that things are proposed ''here'' in particular is so that the full community can have a say in something, not just administrators. I realise the warning template may be more of an administrative thing but there have been a variety of discussions in the past that have only really received administrator input before being adopted. ''Community'' discussions are aimed at the ''entire community'', which ''doesn't'' just consist of administrators.
While I do realise that administrators are indeed part of the community as well, the issue lies with that if only administrators are actually getting involved with community consensus, it could seem like that the wiki is a dictatorship where only admins are allowed to make decisions, which it shouldn't be, though I'll admit that the demise of the entire community getting involved isn't anybody's fault.
Is there a simple solution to this? I'm not sure. While discussions drying up has always been there, I do think that it tends to happen when only a couple of users actually give input (usually administrators) plus I also think that a common belief is that the higher up a discussion is on the page, the more likely it's concluded (when actually the discussion on top of the page at the moment is still ongoing though as per usual it dried up). Plus we're limited to our active userbase, particularly as activity is seemingly dropping. Are that many users aware that this page even exists? Do they know its true purpose? I'm not sure, but I'm asking myself these questions to try and gain some ideas.
I will be giving this some more thought to see if I have any ideas regarding this, though I'd love to know what everyone else's stance is on this, especially if anyone has any suggestions for some sort of improvement. {{GGsig}} 15:35, September 18, 2012 (UTC)
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