Fantendo:Improvement Drive
3,432 articles since April 2007
“ I have a dream that this wiki will rise up and live out it's true potential. I have a dream that one day old articles and games will not be abandoned and rot. I have a dream that stubs will one day become the articles they are meant to be. I have a dream that all articles will be categorized. JesseRoo (Talk) has had these dream as well, or something similar. JesseRoo (Talk) has proposed measures to give this wiki a more comfortable feel. Of course, this wiki would be much more comfortable if those abandoned characters and games were not rotting, but were rather well off and taken care of. This wiki would be much more comfortable if stubs would be expanded to the articles they are meant to be. This wiki would be much more comfortable if all articles were categorized. To make this wiki more comfortable and increase the together-ness of our community, the official Fantendo Improvement Drive has been created. The Fantendo Improvement Drive will aim for these to expand stubs, categorize all articles, and continue old, clearly abandoned games and fan-fics. So I urge you, all of you great Fantendo contributors, to focus on these issues more and help improve our community. ”
— Plumber
The Improvement Drive is dedicated to improving our wiki's lacking areas. By participating, not only are you making Fantendo look better, but you are also participating in the community. Constant maintenance also helps admins consider one for promotion. Questions go on the talk page.
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[edit] Areas of Focus
[edit] Abandoned Games and Fan-Fictions
Knutz & Boltz (Series), Wario Brothers, Guitar Hero: Mushroom Kingdom Tour, Super Mario Wave Rider, The Legendary Starfy's Great Adventure, New Super Mario Bros. 3
One of the biggest problems. To make things more difficult, many abandoned projects have not been tagged with templates. You must find it in yourself to go through piles of old games, and pick up ones you find interesting. Adopt them, and improve them as if you had created them yourself.
It may be hard to determine whether a game/fic is abandoned. If it has not been edited for over a month or the user who created it is no longer active, it's up for grabs. If the user is still active though, make sure to check with them if you can improve it first. Some more abandoned material can be found here.
[edit] Stubs
Stubs are articles that could be expanded, but due to their author's laziness; aren't. Here are some random stubs to fix:
Mario Baseball (series), Galactic Federation, Shadow Mario, List of Bosses of Spike the Hedgehog, Star, Paper Peach, Daisy (Item), Squawks, Who Is The One True Mario? Final Smash Bros., Paper Bros. Wars
However, many stubs are not in Category:Stubs and you will need to manually look for them and improve them. If a stub is a fanon character, consider adding them in one of your games to give them more info.
[edit] Uncategorized Pages
The one of the biggest areas to improve, simply add several categories to each page.
Banjo-Fourie, Video Gaming CROSSOVER CRISIS
[edit] Needs Images
Simply upload an image to solve the problem here. If it's a fanon thing, it may be more difficult though..
Baby Dixie Kong, Balloon Fighter, Beat Island, Fat Jim (character), Fire Jim, Gnawty, Jeniysa, Kop, Sir Snifit, Tick Tock Timelapse
[edit] Wanted Pages
Pages that are red-linked and need to be created.
[edit] Orphaned Pages and Dead-end Pages
Orphaned pages are not linked from any other page, while dead-end pages do not link to any other page. Try solving both at once by linking to an orphaned page from a dead-end one.
[edit] Double and Broken redirects
Double redirects lead to another redirect, so they have to be updated. Broken redirects lead to pages that are not created and should be deleted by a sysop.
- See Special:DoubleRedirects and See Special:BrokenRedirects
[edit] Unused files
Music or images that have no links to them. Create a gallery in articles to add lots more images in. You may need to tag some with the {{delete}} template.
