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== Naming Issues ==
== Naming Issues ==
Ok, so "DHPD" redirects to "Dunell Hills Police Department". However your subpages use them both interchangeably for their titles. You also have categories under both names. If it's not problematic, could I ask that you decide on one and allow your subpages to be moved accordingly? {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 14:27, 29 April 2010 (BST)
: Hmmm.  There hardly seems to be anything current in the Dunell Hills Police Department Category except a whole load of User pages which someone must have added in a fit of enthusiasm at one point.  I don't think there is any problem shifting the pages (apart from the user ones)  over to DHPD.  I'm not sure what the etiquette is about assigning User pages to Categories.  I notice my user page is there and I'm sure I wasn't ever asked if it could be so listed.  If it's standard then move them as well, otherwise I'd be inclined to drop them from the category altogether.  Anyway feel free to move as appropriate.  I'll also ask our wiki people to turn their attention to it but the response may be slow, if you're hoping to get this tidied up quickly.
:How much of a problem is the subpage title thing? We tend to use the acronym and the title interchangeably and it'll be a pain to go through everything to get it consistent, without taking into account that the various squads and sub-groups may feel strongly one way or another {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 14:52, 29 April 2010 (BST)
::User pages often fall into categories by the use of templates, rather than by being directly included - templates containing the code for a category will automatically sort pages they're used on into the relevant category. As for the category/page names, it would ideally be preferable for them all to be uniform, and as such, using 'Dunell Hills Police Department' and not 'DHPD' for them would be advised, especially for subpages. {{User:Misanthropy/Sig}} 14:56, 29 April 2010 (BST)
:::On checking I realise my "User Page" under the DHPD category doesn't redirect to my User page at all but to a separate one someone seems to have created for my DHPD Character!  I'm sure I didn't do this, although it could just be old age.  I'm wondering if lots of the others are just place holders someone has set up. 
:::More importantly, do I understand correctly that you(*gestures vaguely in direction of random wiki folk*) would prefer it if we moved all the pages under DHPD to Dunell Hills Police Department rather than vice versa?  I'm assuming it doesn't make much difference to us although someone must have decided DHPD was preferable at some point in the past. {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 15:08, 29 April 2010 (BST)
::::Yeah the full name would be preferable. If you're fine with that we can just start moving things en-masse and fixing categories etc. (We'll possibly have to meddle with some protected pages too) {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 15:28, 29 April 2010 (BST)
:::::Give me 24 hours.  Our main wiki person is up to his eyeballs in real life at the moment and I doubt the rest of the `wiki team' have any particular preference.  If it makes your lives easier/the wiki less cluttered and you don't mind doing the work then I'd like to give permission but I'd just like to check with the forum first, in case there is some over-riding reason to keep the DHPD Category that I'm missing here.  {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 15:39, 29 April 2010 (BST)
::::::Sure. There's no rush. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 15:40, 29 April 2010 (BST)
:::::::I've spoken to Jim Extreme who did a big wiki reorganisation a while back.  He says he meant to switch everything to one category but ran out of energy.  We're happy with everything being moved to the Dunell Hills Police Department category. 
:::::::Jim also says that most of the User Pages in that category were created by [[User:Conndraka]].  Is there some mechanism for unlinking or deleting them?  We'd need to go through and see which were created by him and which weren't.  But any he'd created and then had never been edited by the player offend my sense of the neatness of things, especially since a lot of the characters are no longer associated with the DHPD. {{User:Louise/PCatSig}} 14:55, 30 April 2010 (BST)
::::::::Since they're pages for "users" who don't exist, they qualify as a scheduled deletion, and any sysop can delete them on sight. I'll hit the ones that clearly weren't touched after being made, and leave the rest in case they do have something important on. {{User:The_Rooster/Sig}} 18:40, 30 April 2010 (BST)


Ok so your pages have been in dire need of some maintenance since forever. :P
Ok so your pages have been in dire need of some maintenance since forever. :P

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Page cleared and archived, save for the below which I'm about to work through. Purple Cat ~ DHPD 17:02, 16 June 2010 (BST)

Naming Issues

Ok so your pages have been in dire need of some maintenance since forever. :P

Some of your internal links probably still need looking at, I'll get around to it. Additionally a bunch of articles in Category:DHPD need to have that removed, but that's easy enough.

Mostly I'm just going to list some things I came across which you might want to look at:

  • Category:Dunell Hills Police Department
    • I've purged a bunch of user pages, but there are still ~100 in your category that were modified at least a little bit so I can't just kill them. If you want to to have members show up in the category, then everything is ok. If you don't want any users in the category, you can remove the category and nav template as needed.
    • I altered Template:DHPD to fix some links. Most importantly, using this template will automatically include the page in your category now. You don't need to add the category yourself. This has also added a few random pages to your category that use the template for some reason.
    • Regarding Template:DHPD. I won't be renaming that since the acronym is fine for a template.
    • Category:DHPD can be deleted once emptied. You should grab the content from the page if you care about it and add it to Category:Dunell Hills Police Department.
    • Talking of the content on Category:Dunell Hills Police Department, you might want to reduce it to the opening paragraph and nav box. The rest is just overkill (that's just my opinion though)

There's a lot to deal with, I won't rush you. If you need something deleted, moved or a protected page edited, either make a note here or pay a visit to A/SD, A/MR or A/PT respectively. -- User:The Rooster RoosterDragon User talk:The Rooster 21:59, 30 April 2010 (BST)

Knew I'd forget something.

I also moved the content on Category:Dunell Hills Military Zone to Dunell Hills Police Department/Dunell Hills Military Zone because the category was empty. The content itself is old and I figured you'd want to look at it and see if it was worth keeping. -- User:The Rooster RoosterDragon User talk:The Rooster 22:02, 30 April 2010 (BST)

Thanks, that's a handy list to work from, although my reaction to most of it is "What?" followed by "Archive it". As soon as my main wiki person has managed 8 hours sleep in a row, I'll get him onto it. Purple Cat ~ DHPD 09:22, 4 May 2010 (BST)
Thanks Rooster - having all of these in a list is really useful. As PurpleCat mentioned, I'm really flat tack in real life at the moment, but will get to these once things calm down a bit. Sanpedro 00:55, 5 May 2010 (BST)
Sure. I also managed to empty the DHPD category. So once you're done checking everything over I can clean up the old links and redirects then you'll be done and I won't pester you any more. :P -- User:The Rooster RoosterDragon User talk:The Rooster 10:16, 5 May 2010 (BST)