User blog:WoeisWingbat/New wiki proposal

As we're currently trying to work out proper guidelines for the wiki (yes, we are doing it), and are trying to set a consistent tone, I feel the need to remind everyone that this is a dubbing wiki. Not a wiki about books, subtitles, no-dialogue video games, M&E tracks, remakes and adaptations (with no dub-able content, so Blue's Clues, you're safe), or everything else other than dubs and what makes them.

I know. We've had that discussion various times, and so I'm going to make it brief. There is a lot of content we're going to have to cut back on, meaning that there are some pages we may have to delete to properly fit the rebrand of a dubbing database.

But why let such important information go to waste, when sites like Wikipedia wouldn't even accept some of them? That I agree, we shouldn't.

This is an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and I wanted to share with you all: What if we had a wiki for all kinds of international media in-between, that wouldn't really fly here anymore?

This is a pretty hard idea to pitch to begin with, since I'm not even sure what you would call such a wiki (you know, other than the International Entertainment Project). A wiki that has pretty much any international media you can think of, even a page about Lay's will do; but just not dubs, since we already cover that.

But that's why I want to know what you all think about this, so let us know!

Also, I hope this comes with understanding that the reason we rebranded what was the IEP to begin with, was that the wiki was becoming over-dependent on dubs. Without a sense of consistency, or rather having an idea of what the wiki is supposed to be in the first place, it was getting really cramped and unorganized. Plus, the wiki was kinda hard to find anyway. But that being said, it doesn't mean that all the information that isn't about dubs has to be lost, it can have a place for itself too.