Thread:As-salamu-Alaykum/@comment-4681049-20140831165214/@comment-3547390-20140901214352

Hello Alaykum. We should inform you that it was not your concepts that was the problem and that we appreciate you trying to throw your ideas into the design. However, the concern is that you edited a Template while it was in testing phase. Us admins often do large scale projects which take multiple days. If people come in and change things around, even subtle details like a color change, it can cause disorientation.

We haven't really made it a rule of policy as it has never been much of an issue before. I still don't intent to, I feel these are more editing guidelines that can have numerous exceptions based on the circumstance. To summarize, if an admin is editing a mass collective entity (such that we could refer to is as a "project"), let them finish their edits before trying to change it around. This is especially true for templates, we often are going through a testing phase where numerous ideas are going to change and develop. Your change, while harmless, is something that might be entirely pointless in the end result due to numerous changes to the overall design.

So, from now on, I ask that you refrain from editing pages that admins are actively working on (creating or reforming, not a simple edit to an already created page) to prevent such an issue. The problem of course then becomes, "how does one tell when an admin is done?". The best way I believe to solve all of this is to give a one week grace period to admins (EmeraldWolf is an admin by the way, if you did not know), who are expected to carry out projects more commonly than standard users. I suggest this can also be applied to standard users if they have projects, though of course an admin can alter stuff if it does not fit in with the "way" of the Wikia. I know that may not seem fair, but it is necessary to maintain structure. I guess what I am trying to explain isn't an enforced rule, but the "Honor of the Wikia".

This "grace period" is one week from the last edit made of the reforms or creation. Reform or creation should be determined by the type of content being altered. Templates are always seen in the creation/reform process when an edit is made. Pages are subjective, a grammar fix will not have any grace period while adding a new section intended to be used on all pages should have a one week grace period as it is a "page template". Due to it not being a rule and being rather subjective, this means we will also not be too strict on enforcement if someone edits the pages. We will simply inform them as we have informed you (with a lot less explanation once everybody is aware of the "code").

So please refrain from editing the navigation templates for one week from the time of Emerald's last edit (this seems fair to me, if a week has passed without editing it can be seen as either abandoned or temporarily done, as we should not expect to withhold editing indefinitely with the promise of our return to finish broken portions). If more than a week has passed, we shall assume it to be done and therefore such edits are more acceptable. Hopefully all this is easy to follow.

You can still make suggestions, that is fine and can be definitely helpful, but changing it without discussion can be disorienting and perhaps nonconstructive based on what the original designer intended. Templates in general should be discussed if by a regular user as alteration by anyone can severely impact the feel of the website.