Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-53539-20160616172536

So it cam up with Sugar and Spicy that we didn't know what to call a page. So someone asked and got told they weren't read for a page.

I've left off names, because honestly its irrelevant. This is to discuss when a Vocaloid deserves a page.

I'm going to put up our general practice first so we currently know what we're all doing or have been doing for 5 years... More or less.


 * 1) To sum up "Status" is this; its meant for a 2 or so paragraph description of a project(s). Its intention is to log all projects known both named and unnamed and note that we're fully aware of their existence.  It is suppose to help track things and help with editors track things.  If a project, as is currently the case with Augris, starts getting more then that amount of information, its usually a consideration for a page
 * 2) Primarily, the thing we've always worked to is that if its both named and due for release, to cater for noobs the Vocaloid needs a page basically ASAP. This is pretty much how things have gone since 2010, even if there is only a few information on the page such as was the case for Kokone.
 * 3) When there is a project due for release but not named, someone usually has had it sit in a sandbox. I've always felt myself that if we have to resort to "descriptive names" for Vocaloids, then we have a problem.  Bruno and Clara had something like "Male and Female Spanish Vocals" which was fine... Except this meant we had potential problems if we had the same situation asBruno and Clara did.  However, there was an issue with just leaving information on Status, which, along with the fact we had a lot of roughness at times and messy layouts led to our current practice of sandboxing all new announced vocals.  We had to tell non-editors "this page is being updating, please bare with us".
 * 4) one of the wikia biggest issues was "cv04". We had to retire the page "CV04" originally because the comments section got filled with speculation when there was nothing to talk about since, other then he was male and not an original planned member of the Character Vocal Series, we had nothing on him.  There other issue was, that aside from this we had edits that added nothing else of importance and that there was also a growing issue with poeple just writing "he is cancelled". We're not here to discuss though, if he is or isn't, just what happened to the page.  Its been about 6 years with nothing more on him, other then CFM media won't do any new vocals until their current projects are done. :-/
 * 5) Unreleased vocals are variable....Kojiloid is an example of a vocaloid I wouldn't make a page for despite being named. He is a private vocal who can be summed up in one paragraph.  Then there is hide or Ueki-loid who are an entirely different matter.  Or Akikoloid-chan and Anri Rune...
 * 6) ausgris is in a somewhat difficult position. There is no confirmation he will be released, but he has growing information.  Ergo, sooner or later if we get too uch information, released or not we need to consider a page.
 * 7) Junger März PROTOTYPE β has a page, with less information, so we have to really talk about this issue. Status could hold information, bt its already on Project if...
 * 8) CV-4Cβ.. A good example of a page that we would question these days on if it should be part of Status.
 * 9) Sandboxes generally currently store all information on the known vocaloids, ready for split... It seems to work as it keeps all the information in one place. We have made a page live early though, when conditions we good enough, though we don't anyway.

I think I got everything, anyone else note anything else?

So with all this in mind, we need to set up a list of "when to" and "when not to" plus a guide to help save time and establish when a page needs to be made or not...

Imagine this; tomorrow all veteran editors leave. So how would a new set of editors know what to do? Answer; guesswork. 