Forum:War Room


 * This is not a replacement of the RfAs, AfDs or the forums itself. This is for things all other things that would need community discussion.

As discussions and votes on wiki-related topics can't always be found in the forums, which may result in an inaccurate result based on only some people voting, the War Room is an established page to vote on wiki things.

Welcoming Committee
Right, well to help with the new flow of users and ips consantly editing this wiki I propose we create a welcoming comittee. This committee will be responsible for welcoming all new users and ips. Any thoughts/comments are appreciated.-- 21:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - I'm kinda new here so I think a welcoming committee would be good for the others joining. I mean, what's bad about a welcoming committee? ukimies 19:09 5 June 2009

Support - As proposer-- 21:15, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

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Support - It makes life easier, and the wiki more effective....no reason to oppose  WhiteyT6 What u want? 05:47, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - It will make the site seem nicer, esspecially the users. TAK The Voyager 22:21, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - It will just make everything seem more professional. TrueRedJake 08:48, 12 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - It will make the wiki better! Cod1 19:55, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - Most wikias have one, so this should too. Nemesis645 14:39, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - A welcoming committee would be useful for helping people get to know the website. HWAskiBRAVO 10:34, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - It would help people use the site easier. Ajr117 12:46, 22 May 2009 (GMT)

Support - While a warm welcome is always nice, I think it would be great to take it a step further. It would be especially helpful for those who are new to wikis and the like if they received some assistance. 11:02, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - I think it's a great idea. When I became a member of this wiki, I kinda got a welcoming thing, though. I thought we had this already. 01:43, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - I think a welcoming committee would be a great addition. It will help get new visitors interested. ZopySH 16:19, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Support - Although I may be a little inactive around the Call of Duty wiki, I've been helping out at a handful of other wikias, one of them exclusively being Halopedia, and by my knowledge, a welcome greeting to every new users make them feel wanted, helpful, and contributing to the wiki community. I've noticed that a wiki user's performance can exponentially grow with a little confidence from a welcome greeting.--

Support = Like the others, I think a welcoming committee would be great. It's nice to feel accepted and welcome to a new place :) --CirChris 00:43, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

Accepted standards
There are some things that have been accepted among the site, and we write respective articles as that being the way things are. A prime example of this is how we have separate articles for the Captain Price from World War II from the Captain Price from modern times. Why do we do this? Because it makes sense. Call of Duty is not a series that has timewarps or special powers and such. How would a man who was middle-aged in World War II be able to do covert sniping operations and save the world from a nuclear war 66 years later? Or for that matter, even still be alive? He wouldn't be able to (well, with the being alive part, he could still be alive, but it wouldn't be likely for you litteralists :P). And because of this, it has been decided among our community via sensical discussion that the two Captain Prices are not one in the same. It has also been decided that they are not even likely to be relatived. They look similar, they sound similar, and they generally are similar. That's it.

But there is still other things that need to be decided as what he accept for our standards. The main thing I'm going at is the Nazi Zombies game mode and things about it. It has been commented that it could be any of the following: Personally, I go with the last one. This series is just so great that many people want to fit all of the metaphorical puzzle pieces into position. But Nazi Zombies? It doesn't fit anywhere in the storyline. Why? It's not supposed to. It's just there for fun. Treyarch didn't add it to have a twist in the official story. They added it to be a fun game mode that doesn't apply to the story.
 * an alternate future
 * one with Locke being the survivor of a plane crash and defending himself from zombies (Nacht der Untoten only)
 * that Call of Duty isn't based off of the real Earth, but it takes place on an alternate Earth that had an almost identical history and all, but instead of World War II ending in nukes dropped on Japan, it ended with a zombie onslaught
 * it's just a dream some character had
 * or, lastly, that it's non-canon (meaning it's not part of the official storyline).

So, yeah. Vote on how we should view the Nazi Zombies game mode in articles, bring up anything else we need to decide on, comment, or whatever. 22:26, 5 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Nazi Zombies shouldn't apply to the official story. It obvious that it's just there for fun. Darkman 4 17:58, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Personal Images
I think that profile/personal images should be allowed. There is no indication on this wiki that personal images are not allowed and I don't see why they shouldn't. I've seen wikis that strive to be "professional" but they still allow personal images (see the Half-Life Wiki for an example). There's no need to worry that personal images clogging up space and eating up bandwidth, as Wikia wikis have almost-unlimited space and bandwidth.

Support as nominator. Darkman 4 03:19, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Just my comment, I'm okay with it as long as the image is not copyrighted and either is in the public domain or is owned by the user. Fair use laws don't allow for images to be used on profiles, so we cannot allow them to be used. Joey  -  Talk Contribs 03:24, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't know that. Would it be okay if someone used one of our already-uploaded fair use images on his profile, or would it have to be deleted off of the user page? Darkman 4 03:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * With fair use images, every instance of the images needs to be used to display educational non-profit information. Thus, it isn't actually allowed to be used as a symbol or profile for a user. However, it is important to note that if we want to comply with the Law, we must not start adding them to user pages, if we want to break the law (some wikis do actually do this) then we can go ahead with this. I know on Avatar Wiki we're close to using a bot to get rid of all of the images on user pages due to this, which is quite inconvenient. I suggest we don't get into a bad habit by breaking the Law and adding them. Joey  -  Talk Contribs 03:32, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Okay. If we do allow personal images, there should be a warning on the "Upload Image" page that says that only public domain and/or images owned by the user are allowed to be personal images. Darkman 4 03:35, 8 June 2009 (UTC)