Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-116693-20130624201511/@comment-116693-20130625170247

Great! Some more thoughts:

Referencing/Citations: Okay, I'm convinced! Like I said, I really like using detailed citation formats and I'm quite familiar with the standard wiki form. I'm a lawyer in real life, so I'm not intimidated by citations; but I do know that they're intimidating for other users, especially gamers, and that most of the time, contributors will simply enter the information and leave the admins to make the citations. No need to argue any further about this, though; I think we have a consensus that moving to a more detailed citation format than we currently use on destinypedia is the way to go.

Decisionmaking/Administration: I guess I should have been clearer: I agree completely with the "consensus" method of making decisions generally! I sure as heck don't know if I'll be around in 5 or 10 years to continue these duties and consensus decisionmaking is a good idea for crowdsourced sites like this. When I talked about having "final decisionmakers" for certain categories, I was talking only about the site merge and transition, and I was only suggesting it for the sake of speed and efficiency. If we do that now, we'll have a painless (relatively) and speedy transition/site merge without having to vote on 50 different issues, and then we can move to the consensus/majority vote model to change things that we (and the community) think needs changing. Even though we get a ton of hits, our relative dedicated communities right now are quite small and don't tend to spend a ton of time on the forums; it could take quite awhile to even gather a consensus.

This is exciting! Any other issues we need to discuss?