Editing Baka-Tsuki talk:Categories revamp project (section)

== Security ==

This may have been discussed somewhere that I haven't seen, but is there going to be any way to restrict access to placing pages into certain categories?  The fact that only admins can modify the side-bar seems to be central aspect of the current sidebar management system.  But wouldn't linking the sidebar to categories allow anyone to add or remove pages from the sidebar? I don't think that would be a problem most of the time (we don't have too many vandals around), but it's a large change from the current system.  Of course, the pro is that Oni and/or Darkoneko wouldn't need to be bugged every time a project has met the full project standards. --[[User:Cthaeh|Cthaeh]] ([[User talk:Cthaeh|talk]]) 20:37, 7 February 2014 (CST)
:The sidebar won't contain a list of novel's anymore. It will just be a direct link to the category page. I'm not sure if you understood that, but that's the plan. [[User:Cloudii|Cloudii]] ([[User talk:Cloudii|talk]]) 20:50, 7 February 2014 (CST)
::I guess I was imagining that the light novel category would be somehow transcluded into the sidebar to produce something visually similar to the current sidebar (with the addition of few more links to the other types of categories).  I did understand that it would be based on categories and there would no longer be a list written out directly on the page.  So my main point/question is what you elaborated on below. --[[User:Cthaeh|Cthaeh]] ([[User talk:Cthaeh|talk]]) 21:00, 7 February 2014 (CST)

This also ties into [[Help:New Project Startup Guidelines]]. Currently, BT Projects are "approved" when Oni/DarkoNeko adds a project to the sidebar. On the other hand, there's nothing stopping someone from adding a half-translated teaser to '''Category:Light Novel (English)''' (which by the way, is an awfully vague way of describing the category, since DarkoNeko apparently wants to exclude teasers and abandoned projects from that category. Most contributors would just assume its a category for all English LN and add their teasers to that category anyways... which will probably be an issue). Anyways, in this new system, how are we we going to regulate project approval if there's no need for Oni/DarkoNeko anymore? Any there any proposed rules we can come up with that will prevent BT from becoming a completely unregulated body? [[User:Cloudii|Cloudii]] ([[User talk:Cloudii|talk]]) 20:50, 7 February 2014 (CST)