User blog:TVthePunisher/Dexter: Expansion Project

Hello one, hello all...this is the Expansion Project! Take a second to read through the basics...and then we'll move onto the important stuff.

=Basics=

Spoilers
With Season 5 coming to a close, the chance for spoilers has been knocked down to information made public over the next 8 to 9 months (until Season 6 begins). Furthermore, one should not worry too much on editing regarding that policy...UNTIL Season 6 begins. However, the policy is still INTACT for other sources of media (such as future novels or video games).

Speculation and Personal Opinion
Enough about that for now...our focus as contributors is to expand this Wiki and remove what doesn't belong. First and foremost, a contributor brought up a excellent point a few weeks ago: there is a lot of speculation and personal opinion on the articles. We're all guilty of it, so there's no reason to point fingers (doesn't matter what level of guilty you are)...our job is to fix this, which means searching through articles and looking for any instances where something is speculated upon...such as "how a character is going to act in future episodes/seasons/etc.".

Everything should be written in-universe, EXCEPT in the opening paragraph. The purpose of that paragraph will tell the reader a little bit about the character and what Season they were prominent in (such as Jordan Chase, for Season 5), then moving on to the more detailed information. So far, only the character pages are meant to be moved in-universe with information.

Personal opinion such as saying a character smells bad will not be tolerated...and when it comes to the appearance sections, if someone is attractive to you that's fine but comparing their bodies in such a manner that would suggest personal preference should not make their way into the articles. If their personality has some flaws and you decide to edit saying they're "somewhat stupid for making that choice", then that will not be tolerated. Use common sense and you'll understand.

Infoboxes
We need them. Plain and simple, Godisme set up an amazing one that can be worked on in various ways to make certain parts nonexistent and others existent...it's great. MANY characters are without these infoboxes still...and some of them are stuck on the old format, which leaves a lot of messy (and frankly, bulky) blots of information to process. As part of the expansion, any old-format infoboxes should be moved (talk to Godisme for me info) and information that isn't filled in for the current infobox should be done.

Everyone gets one, even the minor minor ones. Trust me...the boxes are set up in a way that even if all you can get is a name and episode, that's all that will show up.

Images
Images are an important part of informative Wikis...and it helps an article if you can get images of a particular scene in the storyline (especially a character's final moments of life). Not everyone has access to episodes in a particular fashion, so this is left up to contributors who can get ahold of said images (such as myself and others). Let me know if you can get images and if you have access to episodes, that way you can add images not only to character articles but episode articles as well.

Spread the Wiki
As much as I love making edits to this Wiki, there aren't enough contributors...we need other fans that love the series and taking on this series alone just puts the Showtime Dexter Wiki (the one that Dexter's official facebook and even Showtime themselves credits) that much further in front of our progress. I'm not trying to make this a competition, but this site is meant to give information...and if everyone is looking somewhere else, what's the point? So spread it...wherever you go, say something about the Wiki...try to get more people to help and read the articles. It's not a requirement but it helps site traffic...and the more contributors, the better this wiki can become.

=Final Say=

I want to see this Wiki grow and I hope with these methods, we can get there. We have to clean up the Wiki and make the articles better, so leave comments and state which pages you want to make the most contributions to...good luck!