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So after discussing a bit with [[User:1337Walrus]], we noticed that in this day and age, having user-made guides in [[Special:Search/Guide:|their own namespace]] doesn't make a lot of sense, for several reasons. For one thing, guides don't adhere to most of our [[Pikipedia:Policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]] by design. This makes them stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of all the other wiki articles. Then, because it's usually maintained by one person, and is subjective, it's bound to become deteriorated with age, without anybody being willing to fix it up. As such, it makes sense to put them in a sub-page of each author's user page. This more closely ties in the guide to its creator, which is good not just for the wiki's organization, but also to further give credit to the users who spend their time coming up with guides. After this change, it should be harder to find these guides by searching, since user pages are not included in the default search filter. It should have no impact for search engine searches, though. In addition, this also makes it so only the original user can edit them, but this is a non-issue since people are rarely interested in editing them as it is. Opinions? Ideas? I might go ahead with this if there is no opposition within a few weeks. — '''{''[[User:Espyo|Espyo]]''<sup>[[User talk:Espyo|T]]</sup>}''' 16:08, 2 January 2019 (EST) | So after discussing a bit with [[User:1337Walrus]], we noticed that in this day and age, having user-made guides in [[Special:Search/Guide:|their own namespace]] doesn't make a lot of sense, for several reasons. For one thing, guides don't adhere to most of our [[Pikipedia:Policies and guidelines|policies and guidelines]] by design. This makes them stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of all the other wiki articles. Then, because it's usually maintained by one person, and is subjective, it's bound to become deteriorated with age, without anybody being willing to fix it up. As such, it makes sense to put them in a sub-page of each author's user page. This more closely ties in the guide to its creator, which is good not just for the wiki's organization, but also to further give credit to the users who spend their time coming up with guides. After this change, it should be harder to find these guides by searching, since user pages are not included in the default search filter. It should have no impact for search engine searches, though. In addition, this also makes it so only the original user can edit them, but this is a non-issue since people are rarely interested in editing them as it is. Opinions? Ideas? I might go ahead with this if there is no opposition within a few weeks. — '''{''[[User:Espyo|Espyo]]''<sup>[[User talk:Espyo|T]]</sup>}''' 16:08, 2 January 2019 (EST) | ||