Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34761971-20190303091738

This is my pitch for a reorganization of the List of channel events page. I was creating articles in non user-space before Ironwestie reminded me that I was getting a little ahead of myself! So, everything is at User:PizzaTotinosBoy/List_of_channel_events.

The channel events page has long been one of my least favorite parts of what is otherwise a wonderful wiki. It's inconsistent throughout and the inconsistencies get especially glaring when the events were major enough to have their own subpages (and some non-major ones have their own subpages, still, regardless). It is also so damn long that it's very difficult to use, with a table of contents that is taller than a 1080p browser window.

Even with a low amount of detail per page similar to the existing page, pages for each event individually would simply be much more organized and easy to browse. Ideally, the List of channel events main page, rather than just being a simple list, would have a blurb for each event accompanying the list; however, it's difficult to work around. It's my position that the bandage needs to be ripped off and the whole page needs to be restructured before the content can be improved to fit the new structure.I'm willing to at least put the work in to fixing the structure, and would be happy to be around to continue to work on improving the content to fit the new structure, though, that will be as ongoing of a process as anything else on this wiki. Still I think it's better to create these separate articles and mark them as stubs or as needing improvement than dealing with this gigantic page any longer.

I also tried to standardize and clarify the names of these events where I could. Particularly, birthdays and anniversaries that were not given a special name on the channel are made to all have the same general wording. ("It's 'It's Everyday Bro' Day Bro" is also known to me to be the official name for that event day; I'll find a source for that.)

Currently, in addition to the list, I have created placeholders/starter pages, mostly based on existing page content, for the first five articles. If you think you can improve the formatting or anything else, I give blanket permission for anyone to edit the pages under my user page that make up this pitch! 