Style Guide/RangerWiki Projects

The following is a list of projects to be undertaken in the newly-created Operation: RangerWiki.

Operation: Ranger Wiki is a project in which we attempt to make the Morphin Grid a better wiki. As it stands now, it better resembles a fan site with disorganization and unverifiable claims. For a basis of comparison, we want to make our wiki as organized, easy to navigate, and reliable for information as Bulbapedia and many other wiki projects.

Individual segments of the project will be listed below. Questions and comments should be relegated to the talk page, as this page can only be edited by admins. Everything in this project is up for discussion, so if you disagree with a point, or have an idea you feel would work better, make sure to bring this up.

Theme
The theme for the site is dark, and doesn't look like other wikis. Darker colored themes tend to make people more wary of its content because it looks less professional, and dark background with light text is harder on the eye (the eye is attracted to open white spaces with dark text). Something to consider, not necessarily a must-change.

Spelling and Grammar
Articles on this site are littered with grammatical and spelling errors. Please, if you're reading an article and see an error, correct it. Also remember to mark the check box "Minor edit" if that is all you do.

Arsenal Pages
The arsenal pages were a good idea, but have problems of their own. Some changes need to be made.

Zords
The arsenal pages are getting long, and difficult to navigate. While having the Rangers' arsenal saves us from having ten thousand pages on individual weapons, it needs to be trimmed down. Therefore, the Zords will be moved to a separate page under the naming template "Zords (season)" (examples would be "Zords (MMPR)" or "Zords (Samurai)".

Duplicate Pages
The Arsenal and Zord pages should contain all the information about the weapons and Zords we have. Therefore, duplicate pages centered around each of these weapons should not exist (for example, there should not be a "Power Sword" page if we have "Arsenal (MMPR)"). Each of these pages needs to have its content transferred to the Arsenal/Zord pages and then deleted, and replaced with a redirect to the respective page, to include the anchor tag to the specific section.

Episodes
If a specific episode is referenced under a weapon's header, or should be, then make sure to include a link to that episode's page. For instance, Zack's Power Axe from MMPR has been stated to also operate as a blaster when not in conjunction with the rest of the power weapons. This is a rare occurrence, so if possible, list episodes (at least a few) in which this occurs. Similarly, Kimberly's Power Bow is said to double as a harp, which only occurred in one episode. Make sure to do this when necessary so readers can find the episodes in question and see this take place.

Fan Worship
These pages are really unbalanced. I can tell on basis of content that we have a good number of post-pubescent male editors out there. Pages like Divatox and Toxica need to be fixed. There is no reason why there should be ELEVEN photos of Divatox on her page, and only one photo of Kai Chen (2 if you count his Gingaman photo). The number of photos should be relative to the article length, and the photos themselves have to serve a particular purpose (most of Divatox's photos are basically the same, just from different scenes). Also, comments like "Divatox is often seen maintaining her beautiful appearance throughout the film and series" have no place in a neutral article.

Ranger Demographics
Many of the ranger pages have blurbs in the trivia section similar to the following:

"Rocky is the first Ranger of Latino descent followed by Carlos Vallerte, Danny Delgado and Mike, as well as the first Latino Red Ranger, followed by Red SPD A-Squad Ranger Charlie."

I've seen some of these blurbs get particularly long and tiresome. The Ranger's race, while a noticeable aspect of the Ranger themselves, has little importance, nor does their lineage with other rangers of the same race who wore the same color. These blurbs need to disappear.

Similarly, there are blurbs such as:

"His zord is the eighth to be a lion. First was Zack Taylor/Adam Park's Lion Thunderzord. Second is Leo Corbett's Lion Galactabeast. Third is Cole Evans' Red Lion Wildzord. Fourth is Dustin Brooks' Lion Zord. Fifth is Xander Bly, Chip Thorn, Vida and Madison Rocca's Mystic Lion. Sixth is Jarrod's Lion Animal Spirit. Seventh is Flynn McAllistair's Lion Hauler."

Also long and tedious. Remove these as well.

Episode Pages
Day of the Dumpster and High Five are excellent examples of this. Make individual episode pages for each episode of the series (I understand how long this will take, I will be helping, too). The color of the top area of the infobox should be gray in most cases, but change color of the episode is focused on a specific Ranger (such as Green with Evil would have a green infobox since the primary focus is Tommy Oliver.)

Future Projects
There will be more on the horizon. This is just a place to start. I thank you all for your cooperation.