User blog comment:Anonymos/Another Admin Post/@comment-1153194-20091231182651

Here's kind of what I said in my blog post:

Two more matters I think we need to reach a decision on. One is story pages and characters that have not been updated in a while, and the person who posted them not being on the wiki

A. This wastes space. B. Some take up character names that others might want to use. Personally I prefer not having (TDR) after my character names, so I put up an original name.

Here's my idea as to how to fix it. We send the users with stories like this a message asking them if we can delete their pages. If they don't reply in either one or two weeks it gets deleted, anyway. This is for stories or characters not updated in over six months with no visible signs of the user being around.

This is how I think the message should look: "Hi [insert name here]. The admins here have noticed that you haven't posted here in a while and you have several unused characters and an incomplete story. If you lack interest in finishing these stories, we'd appreciate permission to delete them as they take up space on the wiki. If you do not reply to this message soon (whatever time we have agreed on), they will be deleted. This will be done as it will be assumed that you don't view this wiki, or any other. Thank you for your cooperation." Or something along those lines.

The other issue is unused images. There's a few of them and these also take up space. They're pretty easy to find through the unused image thing in the special pages page. I think we should start deleting them as a project, but put out a notice for people if they have any that they'd rather not get deleted.