Forum:Changing the Purpose of this Forum

This subforum has been dead for nearly a decade now and based on recent events, I thought of a potentially new purpose it could serve.

When a chapter comes out containing a development that will alter the scope of a wiki article considerably, there will be some desire to discuss the the details of these upcoming changes before the chapter is offically released and the pages are clear for editing, in order for changes to be made quicker and more seamlessly without incurring edit wars. While I do understand this desire I have also been opposed to discussing unreleased chapters on talk pages because I want to be consistent with the prohibition everywhere else, be respectful of those waiting for official release and it would be difficult to retain a consistent standard if unreleased chapters could be discussed on talk pages.

However, I think this forum could be used to discuss upcoming changes based on unreleased chapters. If this does happen, I would support putting stringent guidelines in place to keep the discussion strictly here and not spoil people just looking at Recent Changes (for example, perhaps making a superthread for the chapter being discussed, rather than naming the forum after the part of the chapter under discussion).

Let me know your thoughts on this. Kaido King of the Beasts (talk) 23:47, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Discussion
I agree wholeheartedly that keeping a forum for Spoiler information is a valuable choice since for example I have seen this type of thing done on the Pokemon site Bulbapedia of keeping the spoilers for the latest upcoming games leaks/spoilers centered on a forum thread so people who do not wished to see spoilers could avoid it. As for One Piece itself, I only look at Spoilers myself for information gathering, but only so I can verify what to look for when the chapter comes out, and I only post important information (if there is a need to) and release dates based on the official information presented on VIZ's website.

As for Chapter 1044, the biggest change is the decision based on the state of Luffy's Devil Fruit powers and while I support a administrator page move, I think a little protection or semi-protection can still be applied so anyone that has too much hype could avoid going overboard, since only the changes in the required areas are necessary and I would support on someone handling the proper balance on what needs to be changed within that page. -Adv193 (talk) 00:39, 27 March 2022 (UTC)