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:Both of those suggestions look really nice, MonitorChakas! They seem modest and totally appealing. {{User:Helianthus/Sig}} | :Both of those suggestions look really nice, MonitorChakas! They seem modest and totally appealing. {{User:Helianthus/Sig}} | ||
==Reformatting some other elements of the Main Page== | |||
I was wondering if there was any chance that some of the things on the main page could be updated. Actually I have many suggestions, but at least I would like to discuss them with you. | |||
I think some of the main pages of the Halo universe should also find their way on this page.(UNSC, Covenant, Spartan-II/III/IV programs, Forerunner, Halo Array) A little bit like the "Navigation" on the left, which shows some of the main characters/factions. But my main suggestion for this would be, perhaps, that these pages should be restricted to those that are currently "significant". You know, these pages that are to be updated every now and then. [[Mission to Ven III]] or more generally [[Post-Covenant War conflicts]], [[Halo: Broken Circle]]'s main content. Basically, what people [[Special:RecentChanges|who don't hunt every single edit]] need to know about what's going on on Halopedia. What's new and exciting. Let's be honest, if I were a random visitor, I wouldn't necessarily know which articles Halopedia is updating every month (depending on the relase of Halo: Escalation / Broken Circle / whatever). | |||
A similar proposal would be for the Official News stuff. Currently, they are always very basic, everyone probably already knows what it says, and they change rarely. Instead, I suggest we may have two different "things" (they can still be in the same box). '''First''', what's really new. For example, "small" news (I know they can be posted [[Talk:Main_Page/News/Community|here]] sometimes, but trust me some really deserve to '''be''' on the main page, it would be more... lively?): things like [[Halo 2 Anniversary cinematic launch trailer|new trailers that are f-ing awesome]], releases of new issues of ''Escalation'', any new interesting videos by 343i (The ice bucket challenge with the Beamish cameo could have been featured when it was released, for example), well any other small things. (When a new weapon is announced for Halo 5? etc). The most recent video should obviously be featured next to the box (or whatever you call it, sorry if I lack the technical terms). By the way, we would also get more space by getting rid of that old ''Halo CEA'' trailer, on the front page. I'm not sure if ''old'' videos should stay; "featured articles" sound good, but "featured videos"... meh. '''Second''', what I would call "big" news: basically what doesn't really matter because everyone knows about it. ''Halo 5'' announced for 2015? Yeah! But that's secondary news to me, just put the news on the side. These would be the release dates (It's actually what our "news" box is just about, right now. Squeeze it into simple lines for each future release). Here you can see my talent (No Microsoft Paint was involved). Of course, this is just a basic representation of what I think this box should say and show. These are more like "real news" to me than what's in the box currently. I even think the "smaller" news could be up to 10 maximum. For the "future releases", there will be as much as what's needed. Redundant ones shouldn't be present (just put the next ''Escalation'' issue, not all of them, despite the fact that they will all be released before ''Halo 5''). A few things I wrote are just examples, of course, they don't exist (yet). [[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 13:37, 8 November 2014 (EST) | |||
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