User blog:Tehblakdeath/Capitol Announcement - Sources, Citations, and Editing the Wiki

Greetings, citizens of Panem.

With the arrival of the new book and the excerpt provided today by Suzanne Collins, the wiki officially has to deal with the release of new content yet again. However, the staff team that handled the last new wave of canonical content have all long passed the torch down to me and Utkar as a "skeleton crew" of sorts, which leaves us with little idea on how to address things. We've contacted a few community members over on our Discord (which, by the way, you should definitely join to keep up to date on info regarding the wiki and canonical content) and have gotten a couple replies thus far.

One of the users we came into contact with was fellow user TheAmericanDream, also known as Tyler, who offered his solutions in a discussions thread, the details of which I've copied and pasted here.

"Hey everyone,

For those of you that do not know me, my name is Tyler. I've been around this wiki, and our sister Role Playing wiki since late 2013. I love the Hunger Games series, and I'm very excited for the new book!

For those of you that do not already know, "Entertainment Weekly" has partnered with Scholastic to release a small excerpt of the new book, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes." This excerpt can be read |here This is the first time the Hunger Games fandom will have new canonical content since the release of Mockingjay Part 2 in 2015. This presents some questions for this wikia moving forward.

We currently do not have any policies in place for editing canonical information or adding/removing content from pages. We also do not have a universal citation system in place. Most wikis for series/trilogies will cite basically everything, and remove as much speculation and opinion as possible. Currently many of our pages are semi-factual. They include information from the books and movies, while mostly failing to cite where in the books/movies it is from. They also seem to include a lot of inference and opinion when analyzing the factual info.

This could potentially be an issue moving forward, as we have a new generation of fans and editors approaching. However, this also presents an opportunity to fix these issues.

My question for the community here: How would you like to proceed?

Should we leave everything as is, and try to establish some sort of rules based on what we have been doing?

OR

Should we clean up the 455 pages we currently have, and make them all uniform? This would require book/movie citations, and the establishing of some sort of policy.

OR

Should we contact Fandom and/or another book series type wikia for assistance in producing a universal policy and then updating our pages accordingly.

This will obviously take some time, and work, as well as patience. This could end up being frustrating for us here, as change is always hard.

However, there are also some PROS to this. This would clean the wiki up and help us to appear more professional. This could potentially reinvigorate editing on the wiki. And this could also potentially make us more active and draw in some new users.

Please, in the comments below, state your preference of the choices presented, or offer an alternative. No matter what your opinion on this matter is, please proceed in a manner that is respectful, patient, and willing to hear others out."

In regards to this, we ask you, the community, as to how we shall proceed regarding the task at hand.

May the odds be ever in our favour.