Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-3234315-20191128083600/@comment-3234315-20191130170222

Usually, I'm spending hours of the day, every day here on the wiki – and there's sooo much to do. I just haven't found the time, the energy, or the mind to build up policies. Besides, that would be a community project and no dictate by some admin, so my ideas could only be suggestions.

We have something like policies: they're linked in the top navbar, but either they lack details, are outdated, or don't match my ideas, but were written ages ago by persons not active anymore since ages and could use an update.

In most cases I try to explain changes I make to edits from other users. Depending on impact or perhaps mass of edits from that contributor, either with the edit summary or by message. And I also try to not be discouraging … in most cases. However, this of course depends on that specific person's own mind and how sensible they are. Did you feel discouraged? Judging by your ongoing work – no.

The current community message explicitely asks to use infobox templates, rather than copying from existing pages. If infoboxes receive changes on a daily or weekly base – how much time and effort would it need to regularly update all pages they are placed on? I do have a bot, but still it's my time.

A Long Sword will be a Long Sword as long as this item exists in-game – as will any other in-game "item" related article, so there's nothing wrong about that. But if you're referring to such as generic things while writing an article, it should be referred to as long sword – for easier reading.

It's different, however, if it's about things like "Thieving Abilities" – which actually should be "thieving abilities". Thus, attacks per round, for example, was moved to this very spelling, as will the abilities page if it has a future. But, again, consistently and immediately? How much time will it take to check all (currently) 4,424 pages for uppercase headings? Do you want to do that? Now?

I've changed that to exactly link to what it is linking: to add the possibility that a bard could do so, too, rather than only a thief. That's nothing to do with 3e or a different name for the class. Another way would be to make the text longer and write of "a thief and a bard could" – better?
 * Rogues

From the bard class description of the original game: "BARD: The bard is also a rogue …", so nothing new.