Thread:Lilac11/@comment-27860632-20161106183620/@comment-32738051-20161109134543

Sorry to butt in here but I've spent some time looking into things like templates and paying attention to some of what Foss has done - simply amazing by the way - and I have some thoughts on this. First, there is a page that is included in all Wiki site called Special:AllPages and here is the link to ours on this Wiki: http://the-secret-society.wikia.com/wiki/Special:AllPages. On my profile page under my favorite site links, I call it Secret Society Wiki Sitemap. Unfortunately, it looks like someone changed it at one point so it no longer lists all the pages by title as links to those pages. I found that a more helpful view than the current one, which lists nothing or next to nothing but instead has a drop down to see the links listed by type of page. Anyway, if you go to All Pages and select Template in the drop down and click Go, it will list all the template pages currently available on this site.

As just an example of something Lilac and I were recently discussing, one set of templates we seem to need is for collections and collection items. The template list is a long one but in it you will find one called Template:Collectionstub. This is the template that adds help text to the top of a collection/item page with good resources for building the new page. Until a collection/item page is complete, that text can and should be kept in place, along with adding the category Article Stubs (also see: Template:Stub) to it so there is a centralized place noting all such incomplete pages. The category and the help text can be removed once the page is complete.

It may be that we need template pages that are more structured than having template stubs like the collections one. If so, it might be good to replace or update some of the existing templates with more specific ones based on currently completed examples. If new templates are needed, Help:Templates in the Fandom Community Central pages is a great resource.

Hope that helps.