So today I was happily browsing MA, and I noticed that someone is replacing the usual way bg notes are formated with a template-based approach. (Example). Which reminds me a bit of how some time ago a beautiful banner (like this) started to appear on top of articles with a real world POV were given a beautiful banner. Some research on that suggested that Cid is behind it, and that he also created three other banners. Why was one suddenly decided to be implemented, but not the others? I have no idea... and that is kind of my point. For some years, as MA grew, I've seen changes like the background note template "suddenly" happen, all the way to when episode links first became template-based. Now, this is not a complaint, all changes so far have been very neat and I'm happy to follow them, but the actual implementation seems to lack transparancy. (either that or I'm missing something huge and obvious here. Which I'll admit is entirely possible).
Where are these changes discussed and decided? And more importantly, where are these announced?? The way I start implementing style changes right now is by stumbling upon one, and then, after concluding they are valid, aping them. Hardly an optimal process. Yet I know stuff like this isn't on Memory Alpha:Announcements, and forum searches tend to be extremely dissapointing. For example, I found nothing on Ten Forward about the background note change. I'm sure Memory Alpha:Manual of Style will be updated shortly with the new guidline (though it still has the old one right now), but since I don't have the entire "memory alpha" namespace in my watchlist, that seems an inadequate way of proclaiming these kinds of changes. Hence my rant, and hence the question; is there some terribly important anouncement page that I am not aware of? Or can there be some more transparancy about new policies/guidelines etc.? -- Capricorn 07:51, 8 June 2009 (UTC)