Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-27765057-20150329235438/@comment-1942179-20150330003516


 * 1) Well despite having just gotten over a cold and currently moved on to having allergy attacks and terribly irritated eyes, I'm trying to make the most out of today by pulling my butt out of my creative slump and doing work.
 * 2) I love SFW. I could not have found a better place to come and post my work. It's not even just about showing my work, but rather it's like a database for me to keep track of my series as a whole. I'm proud to have been promoted to admin, and I want to see the best for this wiki.
 * 3) At first I wasn't sure, but overtime I've come to believe that the biggest problem with this wiki is that new users aren't coping well with standards. Sometimes they don't understand, sometimes they're overwhelmed with the amounts of writing they have to do to keep their pages from being marked down, and a lot of times they get upset because people like to jump at the chance to mark down sub-standard pages the moment they get published. I'm fairly certain this is one particular reason for the wiki's gradual (to even sudden) decline.
 * 4) You're looking at a person who enters the chat every once in a blue moon. I have no comments.
 * 5) The background? Plain, simple, and quite fitting. It's good enough, and it's checkered. I would suggest going for the iconic brown and orange checkered bg, but blue fits this wiki so much it would feel incredibly awkward without it. And I'm not just saying that out of personal bias.
 * 6) It's certainly grown over the years. It looks wonderful in my eyes. Although I can't help but find Vexx' icon in Heroes to be a liiittle bit unfitting. No, I'm not asking to go back to Smash--that was kind of a choppy and bad icon anyway. (No offense to Memph; the pic was awesome, but not icon material. and I screwed up the cropping.) But Vexx, despite having won Best Hero in the SFW awards, looks more like he should be representing the Neutral category there. But maybe I'm just nitpicking. Finding a good, heroic avatar has proven to be kinda difficult these days, anyway.
 * 7) Hm...I was never one for flashy introductions, but I feel it lacks punch. I can't tell you what to add to it, though.
 * 8) The policies are an essential asset to our wiki, but I feel that maybe, just maybe, they're enforced a little bit too strictly. Sure, the strictness of it has cleaned up SFW a substantial amount. (we seriously got rid of 6,000 pages worth of crap and things that didn't meet standards.) But along with it, we may have swept away some users and potential editors as well.
 * 9) There were some pages that kept showing up that weren't covered in the policies. I haven't checked them in a while, but stuff like Pairings and Song-pages weren't there the last I checked. Pairings is probably covered now, but I don't recall songs at all. Aside from that, my only real complaint is how soon people mark down pages that don't meet these standards. We should give them a few days before jumping at people's throats. Instead, we should try to help them out by offering advice and reminding them of the article standards as politely as we can, so to not drive them away.
 * 10) No comments whatsoever.
 * 11) I was raised in a profanity free household; my answer is "No, not at all" by default. The farthest I will ever really go is using hell or damn, and even then that's a rarity. (and more often than not, used while speaking in character rather than for myself.)
 * 12) What activity? *shot* Seriously though, it's sad how everything just slowly died. I'd love to do something to help, but I've been pretty out of it lately. If you've noticed my inactivity, lemme just say that it ain't just here. I haven't been active anywhere lately.
 * 13) We seriously need to make more announcements more often. That's about all I can say. There hasn't been a single announcement in like, what, a year at least? That art theft is just a reminder really, so I can't even say whether or not it really counts.
 * 14) Honestly? I don't see any admins really doing anything these days. Akrivus is one of the most active admins I see these days, and he's already stated to have been losing interest in the Sonic Fanon in general. I used to wonder why most people always come to me for administrative assistance, (and Mantis even implied that I was some sort of leader of the crew,) but now I can kinda see why if no one else is really that active. No offense intended towards any of you, but I lurk this wiki a lot and I rarely see any admin outside of the chat aside from the off chance that they're editing their own pages.
 * 15) I can't simply group them all together; everyone behaves differently. The best answer I can give is that I tend to see well mannered people more often than not.

Keep the lolipop, I want a cookie.