Thread:Toji-san/@comment-30594379-20181102134312

Honestly, I hate to say this after you made all these pages, but I feel like most of them should be scrapped.

I know that we have a lot of traffic on this wiki (600k+ views over the past week!). That means that there are a lot of potential editors that will join the wiki. Some policies should be made/enforced to keep the wiki organized. But this is overkill.

There's too many rules. I know it's a big wiki, but we only became admins recently. Sure, we have experience as admins on other wikis, but I don't know if we can even enforce all these rules. The majority of the articles aren't even sourced or follow a set standard. Help:Policies has some general tips about policies (duh), but I'll leave my thoughts here as well.

Not everyone who visits this wiki will edit this wiki, and not all editors are experienced. I'm afraid having so much policies will scare potential editors from this wiki. Heck, half of them probably won't even read the rules. There's no point in making so many rules of when there's only a handful active editors. In addition, some rules are very restrictive. Policies for profiles]], message walls and blogs? There should be some freedom in there.

Don't get the wrong idea. I agree that we need some policies on the wiki (I even started this to set a naming standard). I just don't think we need that many. My suggestions:
 * 1) Keep things simple. Like I said earlier, not everyone will read all those rules. Check out Overlord Wiki's guidelines. Everything is located in a single page. It's somewhat basic, but it works.
 * 2) Expand certain rules if necessary. Once a lot of articles are up to standards, we can make/update policies so other articles can follow the set standards. If there are issues with certain rules, we can update and clarify those rules to be more specific.
 * 3) Use Shared Help pages. Some help pages already have some tips/guide on what (not) to do, and are usually relevant for most wikis. We can use these as a baseline and update them specifically for this wiki if needed.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant (although I suppose it is a rant at this point), but I just want you to slow down for a moment. Communities aren't built in one day. We can improve this wiki one step (article) at a time. 