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Where to put proposal-community-specific help pages?
In a Codidact community there are community-specific help pages, reflecting the fact that each community is different. Over time these help pages can be modified in response to discussions on Meta. However, here on Proposals there is only one help section, shared between many proposed communities.
Ideally, part of preparing a proposed community would be settling on what its help pages should contain, so that when it is ready to be self contained it does not need to start with the default help pages. Having its own community-specific help pages will also help during the proposal stage, so that users can better understand the emerging community that they are shaping.
How should we provide a place for community-specific help pages?
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I agree with this suggestion to use Meta to develop drafts (and was about to suggest the same thing). Another thing we could do, when initial drafts have settled down and if there are several pages, is to add community-specific sections to the help here on Proposals -- so alongside what's already there, there could be a section for "Videogames help", one for "Worldbuilding help", etc. Theoretically this could get out of hand with lots of active proposals, but (a) this site exists to help proposals develop and launch, so it's not a "normal" community anyway, and (b) I don't think there will be that many community help sections under development at the same time.
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