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: And regarding priorities, postponing needed structural fixes goes against the cost of defects principle, where the longer you wait, the more costly the solution ends up being. This week would've been a great time to make upgrades before the flood of information and interest for Rhythm of War. For instance, on the statistics pages, there's a fair amount of work involved in getting each line updated as is, but with just a few simple changes it could've been made so that the process to update it when a book comes out would've been a breeze. It's a moot point now that I'm leaving the wiki, but that was all my response was going to be about before I noticed that my user rights were also being restricted for some reason. [[User:SimonEwok|SimonEwok]] ([[User talk:SimonEwok|talk]]) 09:42, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
::Good morning! I apologize; I should have notified you regarding this. We would mostly just like you to discuss page creations, so we can discuss and deliberate such things. Regarding the Rosharan calendar, that is currently a section on the Roshar page that could definitely been expanded. That has been a subject of discussion for many years. There's kind of a lot of things going on there, and we are worried that since the calendar has no canonical name just would make such an article difficult to find. It would be much easier if we knew its name... So I guess what I'm saying is that there are things you may not know, so maybe let's talk about them? :) Anyway, I do apologize. I really should have notified you about the user rights change. We just want to discuss new pages. Sometimes there may be a different way to structure things.
::Regarding structural fixes: I do not agree with your assessment. We are less than a week away, and we have an entire novella to work on. I saw your comment on a possible Battle infobox, and while that *could* be useful, I'm not sure what parameters would be too distinct to warrant it. Plus if we did implement it, there would be a lot of backwork to do. I would just say that Stormlight releases are by far the busiest time on the wiki ever, and we're getting two of them. There is really not enough time to properly think through upgrades. I think it would be better to go slowly and carefully instead of half-baking an infobox and applying it to a bunch of pages. Also, specifically regarding your example on the book statistical analysis pages: jofwu (timeline extraordinaire) has a spreadsheet that generates the entire chart from word counts. So again, I would just say that maybe there are some things you don't know?
::I am sorry you feel that we are too centralized. I imagine Wikipedia is very different, but we do feel that having centralization in our staff with our team decisions makes the wiki better, not worse. It means there is consistency across our 3000+ articles in content, style, and templates. I feel this may be a cultural difference (correct me if I'm wrong, but you seem like you are an avid Wikipedia editor) to what you are used to. We may have some different priorities, and in this way, it would indeed be extremely useful so we could discuss things and hash those out. -- [[User:Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk:Chaos2651|talk]]) 17:26, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
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