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Friday, April 9, 2021

Dozerfleet Database back in a big way!

While it's undoubtedly the case that the SlimWiki version is not adequate for public view, Dozerfleet is now on Miraheze. The transfer to this platform from the "woke" mess that Fandom has become will take some time. Please be patient.

With a return to proper MediaWiki, comes a slew of other challenges. For starters, the wiki is no longer interested in being an exact copy of Marvel or DC Databases. This is reflected in the new logo and icon.

Here is how this will be reflected in design:
  • Characters will still get a universe designation. However, only alternate reality versions that have truly proven influential will get a separate article.
    • Prime Candi will still be distinct from Cataclysmic main timeline Candi. Despair and Classic Candis will still be separate entities. Comprehensive Candi will still be a separate entity. However, Gaming Canon Candi won't be considered a separate entity from Cataclysmic Candi. Crossover Candi will be a separate entity though.
    • This logic will be applied to other characters, such as Extirpon. It'll no longer be necessary to give his M:AA fanfic universe clone a separate article entry.
    • Since the original Navyrope inception never was made, only Cataclysmic and beyond Navyrope incarnations will get an entry.
    • The Gray Champion will get an Earth-G0 article. However, Hea Pang's past as "Heeshwa Pwong" can be condensed to a footnote for the Cataclysmic Gerosha incarnation.
    • Just because a character may have existed in a prior universe, doesn't guarantee them sufficient notability to warrant an article dedicated to their existence in the work. Unless they are sufficiently outstanding, they will probably just be a name on a character list. There is no need to waste time trying to imitate Marvel's inefficient methodology.
  • Legacy characters and mantles will still require disambiguation. "Ciem" has been a title shared by Candi Flippo-Levens-McArthur, Tanya Woven, Michelle Winston, and Dana McArthur-Spanz, not counting the times Tabitha Pang dressed up as Ciem for Halloween when she was young. So the different incarnations of Candi, as well as the times Tanya, Michelle, and Dana carried the mantle, will warrant explanation. The Gray Champion, likewise, will require disambiguation, since the mantle didn't always belong to John Domeck.
  • Characters' preferred (or most common) legal names will still be used, though women who experience a name change post-series (usually upon marriage) will have their new names explained in the article. Mantles and codenames are of secondary importance.
  • Ferris State coverage will be scaled back. There's no need anymore to devote a separate article to every facet of Dozerfleet at Ferris, given this was over a decade ago, and has no future, as Dozerfleet Productions has moved to Florida.
  • LCC articles will be mostly limited to discussion of whatever can't be published to the blog, due to copyright concerns.
  • Tri-Sola coverage will be scaled back, and focus only on what the blog can't.
  • Support for Adam-00's Cagegirl is being dropped. Camelorum Adventures will be retconned to leave her out. This will affect Percolation Warriors, as the final edition won't include Xira or Xera in it.
  • Geography won't be as strict to follow Marvel Database standards. It'll be assumed readers are not idiots.
  • Fewer spoilers. The new layout will aim to spoil a lot fewer details about works that have yet to even be outlined, let alone published. This will prevent plot leaks about plot points that haven't yet been finalized.
  • More links on MediaFire and the blog. The blog should be for links to published material. The wiki should be about project history, first and foremost.
  • Not every project before 2001 deserves its own separate article. Some of those early ideas were too juvenile or underdeveloped to warrant a whole article dedicated to them.
  • Only exceptional Every Ape songs will get their song entries listed. The albums of lyrics will still get article; but actual songs will have their lyrics moved to the blog in time.

Later this month, Dozerfleet will begin moving content to the Miraheze fork, as well as continuing to move content about projects to the SlimWiki fork. The Fandom version will be reduced to basic information about Dozerfleet divisions. All other content will be removed from Fandom.

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