Forum:Fandom coverage

So as we all know MSPA is impacted heavily by the fandom, especially given that it originally ran off reader commands. Despite this we hardly cover the fandom, focusing purely on MSPA itself. Our previous justification of this in the simplest terms is that we are the MSPA Wiki, not the MSPA fandom Wiki. However given the previously mentioned relationship between the fandom and MSPA this is missing a large part of the picture that is MSPA.

Now aside from the obvious proposal to cover the fandom to a greater extent, is also how it should be handled. Our two current fandom articles; the fan albums and the fan pesterchum user list are both in the Project namespace (and should the proposed fandom memes article ever get finished it would presumably also be there), though there has been disagreement about whether they should be there or in the mainspace. As such I propose we ask Wikia to give us a custom namespace (each Wiki gets about 3), the Fandom namespace, to which we can move those articles and place any future articles.

Even if we decide to not extend fandom coverage I think we should still go for the custom namespace to finally resolve the namespace issue regarding the current coverage.

Also it goes without saying that we would need a policy to cover the exact extent of the fandom namespace so that people don't take it as a sign to add their fanventures or fan characters to it. Should we decide to go ahead with it I think a simple placeholder of "only by admin approval" should cover it until a more extensive policy can be crafted. - The Light6 (talk) 07:02, August 10, 2013 (UTC)

Fandom namespace vote

 * Support - The Light6 (talk) 07:02, August 10, 2013 (UTC)

Extend fandom coverage

 * Support - The Light6 (talk) 07:02, August 10, 2013 (UTC)