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The idea has been presented that discussions held in the forums, rather than on this page, would be more in-depth and more easily organized. Presently this page can tend to get quite long before it's archived, but the discussions themselves are somewhat limited in their length and scope, in order to prevent the page from getting way too long.
I want to state from the outset that I am in favor of this change, but I want to make sure we give this idea a fair and thorough discussion. This decision would change how discussions take place on this wiki - a process that has existed largely in its current form since before most of us were ever part of the wiki. I wouldn't propose and support this change if I didn't think it would be beneficial. I think having a forum-based community discussion system might even encourage users to bring up issues and ideas, where right now they may be dissuaded by the Talk Page system we use.
Additionally, each forum thread could be archived as-is, meaning looking up old discussions will be as simple as remembering the name of the topic, as opposed to remembering the specific archive page it's stored in. Links to discussions will no longer change when the discussion is archived. Presently, a link to this discussion would be ''"The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal#Changing how community discussions are handled"'', up until the page is archived at which point that link will no longer direct to the right place; in a forum-based discussion system, the location of the discussion would remain the same even after archival, meaning that links to the discussion will never be broken.
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:As I've said on IRC, and echoed by the fact that I've developed a system [http://nothingherethatsspecial.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Defcon_1 which you can check out here], I'm in full support of this proposal as it makes backtracking easier, designates what discussions are ongoing (which could be a step in fighting the often situation of them drying up), can accommodate a lot more discussions at once, including various viewpoints/proposals related to one thing as we'd have the whole page for the topic and finally, it may persuade users to use our forums a bit more, which seem to be lacking for some reason. So yeah, I'm all for it. {{GGsig}} 00:55, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
::An item I forgot to mention but which GG sort of hints at above... It seems that discussions on this page tend to dry up as soon as they "move up the page" - we still have "active" (I use the term very loosely here) discussions near the top of this page, but they are all-but-forgotten because of what is below them. I think having each discussion on its own page will alleviate this. -- '''[[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>''' 00:58, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
::::I find this a good idea, per the points referenced above. {{Template:DanPinSig}}18:51, November 2, 2012 (UTC)
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