FamilySearch Wiki:Transforming a Style Idea to a Manual of Style Guideline
Process to transform a style idea to a wiki-wide guideline
If you have a stylistic idea that you feel should be adopted on many wiki pages, you can follow a procedure to try to transform your idea into a site-wide guideline. For instance, if you feel every page on the wiki should have a green background, you would follow these steps:
- Create a new page called FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
- Link to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages from the Proposals Being Discussed section of FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style.
- Add to Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages a short blurb which objectively describes the proposal and which links to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages (this is the Talk section of the page you created).
- Add to the Talk page (FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages) the reasons why you feel your idea should be adopted. You needn't speak objectively on the Talk page -- you are trying to convince others that your idea is a good one.
- Invite others to add to the Talk page any reasons why they like or dislike the proposal, or how they might improve it.
- When consensus is reached, transfer relevant details of the discussion from the Talk page to FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
- Create a link from the Issues that have reached a consensus decision section of FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style to FamilySearch Wiki:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages.
- Remove the link to FamilySearch Wiki talk:Green Versus White Background on FamilySearch Wiki Pages from the Proposals Being Discussed section of FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style.
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