User blog:Hunter1034/Hunter's Response to all the Whining

So, as you who read this may have noticed, I've been going around on a little crusade as of late. So, here's a little self Q and A about what I've been doing...

'Q: So you say you're on a crusade. Why don't you enlighten the crowd as to what it is you're fighting?'

A: I'm fighting against the overwhelming number of poorly made pages that currently take residence on this wiki. I (like many other people) view them as something that detracts from our beloved site's reputation, appeal, and even happiness and am going about having them removed via SFW procedure.

'Q: Wait, happiness?

A: Yes, happiness. Whenever somebody who works hard on their well thought-out character or other article and happens to try and look at some of the other characters on this wiki, more often than not they're greeted with things that don't even bother to use semi-proper English, let alone scrape by SFW standards. I've had this happen personally, and I can honestly say it ruined my mood.

'Q: Alright, I can understand that. Back to your first answer, just what is this procedure you're speaking of?

A: Whenever I come across an aricle that doesn't meet standards, I post the "PageWarning" template on its talkpage. If the creator of the article doesn't comply to the terms of the warning within the required three to five days, I add a "Delete" tag to the page so the admins can get rid of it as soon as possible.

'Q: But not all users are happy with this, are they?

A: No, no they aren't. I tend to get asked "Please don't delete !! and "How does this not meet standards?!". I answer the request with: "I'm not an admin, so I can't delete it. I'm just making it for the admins to, though." and the question with: "Why don't you read the policies and find out?"

'Q: And how do they respond?

A: Usually poorly or not at all. I'm not all that popular with the newer users ATM because newer users normally are the ones who have the bad articles. There have been one or two that have pointed out that they don't know how to do something, though, and I've been happy to help them out.

'Q: Ok, now that we've got the backstory on the issue laid out, what did you make this blog to do?

A: Simple really, to tell all users who whine and complain about what I'm doing that they brought this upon themselves by not keeping track of what was allowed and what wasn't, and that if they want to keep their pages safe they do one of two things:
 * 1) Mark pages threatened by the PageWarning with a Construction template like it says and actually work on it or,
 * 2) Move the pages to your userspace (User: /). Pages in userspace aren't in mainspace, so they can't be random-paged to, and userspace recognized as in construction/incomplete area, your ideas will be safe! Just don't try and keep them in userspace and treat them as a normal article, because in that case the admins will as well and your "protection" will be lost.

'Q: Anything else you want to say?

A: Yes, to the other veteran users, administrators and bureaucrats: HELP ME! There is over 13,000 pages on this wiki and only one me, so sitting by and trying to let me do all the pullin' is unacceptable. We're supposed to be a community: Let's try and act like one!