Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-25857155-20150703155424/@comment-4403232-20150703191106

Unfortunately, Wikia's "new" forum system lacks several capabilities so I'm a bit on the fence. For example, votes cannot be organized and numbered by Support vs Oppose. Wikia's forums also do not have a comment nesting feature, meaning that not only could there not be a support and oppose section, comments on votes (if needed) would get buried in a "Reply to #6 So-and-so said" as opposed to being directly attached to the vote. In addition, the basic voting policy would not be displayed (unless each nominator copy-pasted it, or remembered to look at the board containing the specific thread). The RWBY Wiki namespace also provides much clearer edit histories and makes archival much simpler as it's simply raw text and a little bit of formatting on one page as opposed to various individual comment "pages" placed in a thread "page" in a board "page". A way to ensure that bickering and arguments don't eclipse orderly voting would be needed, as I'm sure we've all seen some... heated... comment chains, whereas the current nomination page generally tends to remain very civil. Finally, this forum system would be at the whims of Wikia updates and changes (such as how the first forum system on the wiki was disabled in place of the current one), whereas the RWBY Wiki namespace acts very similarly to the "main" namespace, and it is far more unlikely that Wikia would release an update that would disable articles on wikis. While I totally agree that the RWBY Wiki namespace isn't a perfect solution and has its own set of issues, moving to the forum feature would just bring up a different set of issues. However, I would like to make it very clear that if anyone is having any issue publishing a vote edit on the page, they are more than welcome to paste the content of their vote on the message wall of any administrator, and we can place it in for you.

For those of you who do still feel that a forum would be a better choice, I'd be more than happy to explain how it would operate. Similar to the Administrative Requests board, a Nominations board would be created, where the description would contain the voting requirements and procedures (supposing Wikia is designed well enough to truncate the description in the master Board page, or else we'll have to find an alternate method of displaying this). Inside this board, would be a list of all active and past nominations (since the creation of the forum, the old archive would probably be shoved in there as a single thread or something). Once inside a specific thread, it would look fairly similar to a removal nomination.