Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20180506105530/@comment-3361105-20180513175920

Tupka217 wrote: How much are those IAGQ links used anyway? Are they really necessary? I've never really used them, but it does seem less intuitive to force people to go to the character page and see if there's a gallery linked THERE instead of making a one-click stop. If no one's using them, though... That said, i'd be in favour of removing those links from Thumbnav altogether, and only using them for the top-spots on disambigs (if there are top spots).

Samohyeah wrote: With all due respect to you guys, casual readers of the site are not going to be particularly interested in who the admins or moderators are, and there is already a link to that page under the community section on the navigation bar at the top of the page for those who are interested. Honestly, I'm surprised that our main page gets any traffic at all. Besides the slider and the "new this week" panel, it's just garbage that Wikia/FANDOM forced us to put there.

I don't think I've visited the main page in years, and I visit this wiki daily. I would think that most casual readers would find the wiki via google searches and external links to content pages, and would therefore bypass the main page completely. But if there are people who do visit the home page frequently, it's a fair point.

Cofvefe wrote: 100% agree--it's just vanity. Literally no one cares. Despite the negative press Cofvefe, that slide was simply meant to prominently direct new users to a place they can get help from an administrator. Not to self-aggrandize. It is, however, presented in the form of a joke. It's okay if you don't think it's funny. We don't think you're funny either.

If it does appear vain, the vanity is justified, given that the vast majority of the content on this wiki was produced by the people listed on that page, and they do deserve credit for that commitment, no matter how bitterly you feel toward them, for whatever reasons you may have.

All that said, I am totally fine with just prominently displaying one event with a picture or video, rather than a slider, because sliders are a pain in the butt to maintain - see also:

I also think the slider should use specially cropped images (670 × 360 pixels) so that they fit perfectly without the black bars on the sides, like the Marvel Wiki does. We used to do this, but not everyone has access to the tools necessary to crop things precisely, and sliders are finicky and produce inconsistent results whether you crop or not. It tends to be much easier to link to an existing image on the wiki than create a cropped duplicate of an image that's already on the wiki, just for the sake of having a slider without black bars on it.

But like I said, i am in favour of not having a slider.