User blog:Webly/ADMIN BLOG: Problems I Have Found That Need Change

Hey guys! Lately, I’ve been trying to tidy up the wiki. The wiki is filled with great content made by us. However, the wiki is also filled with dead fanfiction after dead fanfiction. Yesterday, I found dead/invalid article/camp stories from 2009. Instead of being a place filled with amazing fanfictions, it contains a mixture of amazing and dead fanfictions.

After deleting 100 some pages in a day or two, I’ve come up with multiple problems that we need to deal with. BTW, please mind my terrible grammar… kthx

The first problem/FACT is that there is no rule that states anything about the deletion of blank pages. So, when I saw a familiar fic whose author blanked the page, I was confused as to whether I could delete this. Of course, I remembered one of the reasons for deleting a page was because the page was blank. However, I feel we need to add this unwritten rule to our rule list to show that there is a reason we’re deleting the page. Something along the lines, “Blank pages will automatically be deleted.”

Another problem is that I’ve found pages with characters that are unused. I mean, these pages have been there for years (in some cases since 2010, just sitting there!). No one is taking them as a character because they really don’t know how exactly to take them. These pages are only run into if a user presses random page. We have some great unused characters! Take Shelby as an example. What we really need is an unused characters category that would be linked in Wiki-navigation for anyone to take. Anyone can take these characters. But, these characters are taking up space on the wiki. So we NEED something to happen.

Third problem is that like 5,000 of the 11,500 images we have are not even used!!! I recognize some of the images in there. Sometimes I wonder if I should question some users about whether they want these deleted. If you create a lot of images, you might find some of your images in the unused photos AKA FANNY, REDDY, TOAD, FFE! As I’m cleaning up, I will be deleting a lot of images. And, I don’t want to delete ones that were planning to be used/one wants to save in the future. We have some great UNUSED images uploaded to our wiki. I want to create an unused images page/category for all the great character images that aren’t used. We need to implement a system like this so it could help authors who can’t draw (AKA WEBLY).

Last problem includes our videos, videos, videos. I didn’t realize that this wiki had so many unused videos. I want to delete them. I just wonder why people brought the videos to the wiki and never use them. I never see videos on pages I delete so yeah. Please don’t bring unused videos or photos for no reason. It’s a waste of space. Soon, I will delete all unused videos. THEREFORE, if you want any of them, put them on a page so they aren’t unused.