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This section is charged with organizing the vast amount of information gathered by the agents in Section 3 as well as documenting the history of the GiB and of Gaia itself. The agents working here must be efficient and organized, with a love of history and its preservation for future generations. The GiB Information Database is available for all Gaians to use and as such, classified information must be kept elsewhere.

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Current Mission:
Organize the Database



Head
Eruravenne - Agent Era

Members
The Iron Magus - Agent TIM
rosiea184 - Agent Kat



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To apply for placement in Section 4, simply fill out this form and PM it to the section head, listed above. Applicants should be willing and able to organize information so that the average person can easily read and understand it. You must be able to write clearly and concisely and a reasonable grasp of the English language is a must. Keeping track of Gaia's history as well as that of our own organization is a big job and we in S4 take it quite seriously.

What do you mean by 'condensing the event threads into one thread per holiday'? Like how I've been doing it or....?

Honestly I feel that would make it an unorganized mess. What if you need to add something? Or if someone wanted to input something but can't because it's a past year and would mess up the order? It would be all clumped together in a mess...

I like how each year and holiday event has it's own thread, that way people can post input without screwing up the organization. I usually give those threads reserved posts in case more needed to be added.

I'm gonna have to agree with Eruravenne on this one. Posts can always be edited to include more information. The only complication is if you wanted to have a separate post for each year. There are two different ways to handle that: 1, We could lock the official thread, and then have a separate thread that anyone can post to. Then crew members can add that info to the official thread by editing the posts. 2, you could reserve posts for the existing years, as well as several years in the future. For instance, if you reserved an entire page of posts, people could still post after you with new info, and we'd still be set for the next... 14 years, is it? razz

I don't know if we should consolidate the entire zurg plot into one thread, but I'd like to make one that covers all the Zurg NPCs, from 01-12 and Mother. Then we could delete the ones dedicated to individual zurg.
This thread would have less "order" issues than the Halloween one--I'd just need to reserve 13 posts, one for each NPC, and people could post additional info afterwards, which can be added to my main posts by crew members.

Well, as I mentioned in my previous post, I don't think anyone needs to be posting in the Database aside from S4 members anymore. So other people posting shouldn't be an issue. We can set up a submission thread or something if need be, but S3 and S4 should really be the only people involved in information handling. That may seem overly exclusive, but I think it will help keep order. Of course, Zi would have to agree (I haven't asked yet) and nothing is set in stone right now, so we'll see what happens.

I was also toying with the idea of having a S4 mule to post all these threads with, so all members will be able to edit all the posts and threads, including future members and we won't have to worry about redoing everything if someone leaves. What do you guys think of that?

And is there any particular reason you think it's not a good idea to have the whole Zurg plot in one thread? Also, I want to make an NPC thread that will have information on all of Gaia's NPCs, including the Zurg. I was thinking it would be good to have a thread for the Zurg, another for G-Corp, for S-Corp, The Von Helsons, B.O.O. and S.I.N., etc. I prefer the idea of having everything relevant to a subject being all in the same thread because of the previously mentioned issue of the threads getting mixed up in the forum.



I didn't intend to suggest that. I meant to preserve the way they're set up now, but have them all in one thread instead of spread out in several different ones. Having one year per page would be ideal, actually. Any remaining posts on a page can be reserved for whatever you want.

I don't want anything done yet until we have a more solid plan, though. I wouldn't want to waste time and effort on something that may end up being changed.

Well, we don't have to... sweatdrop We can have separate threads for Zurg related stuff, just to keep it special. It's too bad we can't have subforums within subforums. razz

Sure, as long as it isn't mashed together into one post I'm fine. Either idea works.

Thought of a new name. Agent Precis.

precis or précis (ˈpreɪsiː)

— n , pl precis , précis
1. a summary of the essentials of a text; abstract

— vb
2. ( tr ) to make a precis of

[C18: from French: precise ]

Got if from thesaurus.com lol... What do you think? The pronunciation is the only problem I have with it. But I guess that information could be put on the account's profile for anyone who cared.