User blog:RABNerd VP/New Ship Pages Idea

Hey guys! We have a new idea for the wiki and wanted to put it through a test run if users are up for it. As many of you know we have some specific rules and guidelines for how ship pages are no longer deemed stubs, and if they are not filled out to no longer be stubs within four months, then these pages get deleted. We understand that this can be upsetting and have decided to try out a system that will hopefully phase out the deletion rule.

Each fandom would have a page similar to our Fandom/Characters pages, but for ships. This wouldn't be a list though. Instead it would have every ship on there that doesn't already have a page as it's own section. Under each section would be a place where users could fill out the canon, fanon and fandom sections of a page for a ship. Once the canon and fanon sections are filled out with four paragraphs that are five sentences each (or the equivalent of) and have at least one link in the fandom section, then the ship would be allowed to have it's own page. For an example of how these pages would look, see here.

Regarding current stubs and possible page creation, how those will work from now on is a little different. Stubs will stay up for now, but if they are not destubbed in the 4 month time frame then the page will be deleted, but all the content will be moved to the fandom ship page under that ships section. This will stay up for any future pages created, but hopefully with these fandom pages we can lower that amount of pages that start out as stubs.

For crossover ships, they'll be listed on a page based on the characters names in Alphabetical Order. Ex. AdriJon is a ship between Adrian Agreste from Miraculous Ladybug and Jon Kent from DC Comics. The ship would be listed on both pages, but the information would be listed on the Miraculous Ladybug's ship page, with a link to the section on the DC Comics ship page.

For ships that are for multiple fandoms but no necessarily crossovers (ex. BatCat being both a DC Comics and Gotham ship, Stony being a Marvel and Marvel Cinematic Universe ship), then those would be listed on the page of the fandom they originated with. Pages that are from adaptive fandoms but not the original fandom (ex. Dousy for MCU, but not Marvel and Esperastra for Legends of Tomorrow not DC) should only be on those fandom pages.

We plan to have a test phase similar to our character pages, but this one will be limited to eight fandom pages. Stranger Things/Ships, Genshin Impact/Ships, The Owl House/Ships, Boyfriends./Ships, Project SEKAI/Ships, Danganronpa/Ships, My Hero Academia/Ships and Demon Slayer/Ships. These pages were chosen since they are the top trending pages on the wiki currently, and since they are popular we can gage how well it's going from the frequently viewed pages. Any and all other fandom ships can proceed with how we've had ship page creations before.

We're gonna give it about two weeks, and if enough users end up disliking this then we'll go back to the way we will get rid of the pages for the fandoms and return to how we did things before.

Any questions or suggestions regarding this system can be left in the comments down below. For any other concerns for the wiki please leave a message on one of our admin's message walls.