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Hey guys!

As our show season comes to a close, we wanted to share an update with you about the state of our wiki. As you are probably aware, it will be close to a year before we get new content and we wanted to be forward-thinking by committing to a lot of updates and improvements during this time. We have several ideas to keep us (and you) busy during the off-season, so please stay tuned! We firstly, most prominently, want to mention that we will be doing a refresh of our main page, so we are excited about that and hope that it is a cool new design for users.

**TL;DR** Please see the section below with this heading.

## Policy Updates

* As you know, the Anti-Monitor Crisis really changed things around here. We will soon be adding to our policy what we dub the "Crisis policy" which fully lays out how we as a wiki are handling the changes going forward post-*Crisis*. This includes the franchises that we currently cover and those that we don't cover. We have also discussed reopening some of the discussions on this as well. This policy is mostly just a formal update that new or returning users can go to for an understanding on where we stand regarding the Crisis.

* Page content policies. We will be refreshing several of the pages regarding content including how we name pages and how we take care of certain things. For example, we will try to explicitly formulate a plan moving forward on how to handle pages regarding characters outside of the franchises (like the *Titans* and *Doom Patrol* characters). As well, we intend on making a change with the Harrison Wells pages. People search more often for "H.R. Wells" rather than "Harrison Wells (Earth-19)", to name one example, and we all know him as this. Similar Wells pages will be effected. This change will come into effect at some point, but please let the bot take care of these. (Please don't add the move template as we already have a list of pages we intend to change, so action on your behalf is not necessary). Another change we intend to update is regarding planets. We will update you sooner when we come to a conclusion about this.

* One update we want to make is to fully lay out a hierarchy for a couple things.

1. Which is more important in an appearance section: "pictured" or "mentioned"? We have had this idea floating around but never explicitly stated.
2. How do we classify whether a page is more prominent in one show or another in regards to the coloring scheme on the infobox?
3. At what point do we use a future version of a character's picture instead of the "current timeline" version. Examples: William Clayton, Zari Tarazi, Mia Queen, etc.

## Post-Crisis Page Names

This next task we want to bring to your attention is something that was a problem long before the Crisis, but has only been exponentiated following the Crisis. Here's a scenario, a user comes along and adds a content section to an article (say, an Earth-Prime article). They link to the familiar location of CatCo Worldwide Media. The suggested link opens up with just "CatCo Worldwide Media", so they choose that one instead of using "CatCo Worldwide Media (Earth-Prime)". This kind of edit is wrong, but not really to a "newer" user or someone who is only invested in the Arrowverse slightly. We do not want to discourage the user from editing, but instead must realize that this is our fault as a wiki. Had we instead had our pages named as "CatCo Worldwide Media (Earth-38)" and "CatCo Worldwide Media (Earth-Prime)", we would not have this issue.

This is the issue we want to eradicate. We don't want to worry anymore about "prominence", we just need to separate each page as long as there is reason to do so. That being said, most locations and objects we want to update but believe that our characters are okay for the most part. However, we do need help in this department. If you believe that we need to rename a page **in regards to this issue**, please list them at Arrowverse Wiki:Projects/Multiverse Rename. Please only list them there and let the bot handle the actual moving and re-linking. This will be a lengthy process, but with the help of a bot, we can get it done.

## Project Spectre

Since we have an extended time between seasons, this is the perfect time to make sure we have a complete wiki. Therefore, we invite you to re-watch and help out through the content with us. For a portion of this time, we will be re-watching and working through filling in holes/gaps on the wiki. We are choosing to dub this **Project Spectre** since the Spectre helped rebuild the multiverse and we are effectively trying to rebuild the wiki. Below is our watching schedule. We have chosen to leave off the current seasons because people are going to be watching this material for the first time throughout the year anyway and helping out. As always, feel free to watch and help out wherever you can, but we wanted to invite you to experience the same things with us. We have assigned specifically focused periods (with the thinking being about a week per season), but you can obviously go however fast/slow you desire.

## Other Projects

We have several on-going projects along with returning projects for you to get involved in.

* Earlier this year, we developed an all-inclusive `Individual` infobox instead of having two separate infoboxes (Crew and Actor). The new infobox allows you to link the individual's IMDb, Twitter, and Wikipedia page as well as establish their first and last credits. Please see the template documentation for more information regarding this. To help out, just go to Template:Actor or Template:Crew and view the "what links here" page for pages still using these templates. One thing to keep in mind is that we now need to manually include the categories "Actors" and "Crew".
* Late last year, we developed the `Power link` template to be used in Powers and Abilities sections on character pages. We still need help with these. To see pages that need this link, please see Category:Needs Power link.
* A project we began last year, dubbed "Dead Week" will be returning this year. This is where we temporarily disable our formatting templates (`Ep`, `S`, `Web`, `Com`, etc.) which allows us to view links that are not using our formatting. This will be held July 20–July 26, 2020.

## TL;DR

Just because the Arrowverse shows are not airing, doesn't mean there isn't work to be done. We have several policy clarifications and projects to be done. This includes continuing to integrate Template:Individual and Template:Power link, taking part in our week long format cleanup Dead Week, and moving several pages to have a more cohesive wiki post-Crisis. As well, we encourage you to please take part in our re-watch and editing initiative, **Project Spectre**, where we will focus on a given show during a period of time!

As always, thank you for all of your help! We are very happy to be apart of an amazing Fandom community. Please feel free to reach out to any of the promoted users for assistance on anything!