User blog:Guyviroth/The stance on Couples Pages.

As some may or may not know, me and the rest of the admin team are discussing the status of these couples pages. The problem with them is that, for serious pairings, especially FanonXCanon couples, is that if people disagree, it sometimes results in an all-out flame war. It's happened before. Now the other problem are "Crack Pairings"; basically people who spam the mainspace with stupid couplings just to get some laughs; in all seriousness this is a bannable offense for the simple fact that it's spamming mainspace with unneeded articles; the reason no one has been hammered is because we always kept a neutral and slightly tolerable stance on couples pages.

But this leads to my next point; they're not needed. At all. If your character has, say, a coupling with Sonic, just put in your character article "In her universe she is married to Sonic" or something along those lines. The only reasonable point of the articles, as far as I can see, are the Supporters and Haters section. Now the thing is that people who put their name down as haters get attacked by the author; that is the problem, and that is why we're discussing their removal.

Now, before you respond, here's some common responses I get that I don't want you repeating or I'll delete them;

"This is a Fanon Wiki! So anything that's Fanon related stays, pointless or not!" Have you ever heard of "standards"? Yes, we have them. If it's pointless, it's gone.

"But this has been done over on the Avatar Fanon Wiki, etc etc" Well, sorry to break it to you, but we're not the Avatar Fanon Wiki or the Naruto Fanon Wiki.

"Why don't we just relocate them to another area?" Because you're not doing anything about the problem. The problem is still there.

"I think those Crack Pairings are funny!" If I were to base the counterargument on that remark, we'd be seeing people flooding this wiki with crack pairings, which no one wants, especially our admin teams.

"Don't you dare delete all my hard work!" Oh sorry if I were to delete an article that contained two sub headings for people to sign. If your page has a talkplay, go back it up. Now.

"Why don't we just delete all of the Canon couples and the crack pairings?" Because you're eliminating half the problem. Plus someone can just make a crack pairing and mark it as a serious couple; something that we won't be too happy about.