Revisiting this idea, and summarizing my concept of how something like this could work.
The title would be something like "Dresden Files Spoilers Reference collection"
Most of the reference style stickies in the Spoilers would be moved here but would not necessarily be stickies here.
Stickies that would be there are.
References and Theories Index
Nominate a Theory/Reference post for inclusion in this Archive
Help point out rampant derailment here (not confident on this one being a good idea)
If possible, anyone can post in this section, but only Curators (Local Mods) and admin types can start new topics. However, it is expected that many of the topics are going to be generated in and do some maturing in the regular Spoilers section and then get ported over via the nomination sticky => Admin action. This means that the OP will still have editing rights for their OP, which helps a lot for reference topic creators, and excessive pertying up editors like myself.
New idea:We could even have something like a monthly poll (to be deleted afterwards maybe) that takes all the nominated and seconded theories for that month and allows X number of votes out of Y number of theories, allowing for wide participation in deciding what theories get ported, and ensuring that the initial discussion gets accomplished in the main discussion section. The nomination sticky might get locked the first month after a release, and the # of threads allowed in monthly might float some depending on the # of nominees.
Edit: For the first month or so of nominations we might have to have multiple category polls like Best LC theories, Best References, best GS born Theories...
Edit2: I'm really fleshing this out. Each time we do a poll/set of polls, a new nomination sticky gets generated, the previous one gets unstickied, edited to show the nominies polled and eventually the results, and the old polls are deleted relying on the old sticky to record their results.
One more thing:There ought to be some mechanism that encourages actions like
Elegast's where a good theory post with little/no format editing gets reworked without changing the theory, and the OP utilizes these efforts. I have a hard time expressing how excited I was to see such a great formatting rework of such a well put together theory.