Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20150525013604/@comment-10690212-20150601045556

I really don't know how this wiki and these guidelines work, so take this suggestion with a grain of salt. What about taking down the flagrant violations (something like Sex the Sexhog would just be asking for a takedown, completely blank pages, wingding spams, etc.), and enforcing the more minor violations mainly when it seems like somebody's taking advantage of the rules? I think the biggest thing to do would be to take an active approach by talking to potential offenders. Like if some guy's got a few incomplete articles he hasn't touched in a week or so, an admin could ask him in a nice way why he hasn't fixed things up. If he can't get to it until next week, then whatever. But if he just doesn't care or doesn't fix them after that week, then tell him he's got maybe 2-3 days to fix the articles before they get deleted.

Mainly I'd just recommend being friendly and conscientious to people. See what balance you can strike between strict and loose regulations that's lax and friendly, but stern enough that everyone can be satisfied without feeling repressed creatively. For instance, bad grammar's bad, but as long as the page has a good amount of substance and is largely legible then it can't really hurt anyone. Why punish an article that's poor quality, or "just" below the baseline for a complete article when there's clearly some effort sunk into it. It's probably just some little kid having a good time, and isn't it priceless to be part of a place that can make that happen?

Sorry for the text wall-I'm pretty much stressing that admins have to be compassionate and understanding, willing to take a joke, but also be able to be serious enough to match the occasion. I would think that an admin lacking those traits doesn't deserve the position much anyway. But perhaps my suggestion's a bit too case-by-case and communication intensive for the admins, in which case I'd definitely understand trying to do something else. Even if you do go stricter than this, I'd definitely recommend keeping a positive, relaxed attitude, or else this cycle of regulation and backlash will likely repeat itself.