Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20150525013604/@comment-4029377-20150526212322

Smash The Echidna wrote: I leave for (less than) one day and all hell breaks loose. Okay let's see.

Phlegmatic-Yosuke wrote: Kagi advised that admins give valid reasons for why the pages should be deletedKagi's suggestion is actually a very good idea for this case. oh don't mind me, then.

Jared and Zion wrote: look I don't know what all happened with you in the chat that made you lose trust in the staff, but if we had legit requirements to bring a page up to vote, then the admins wouldn't be able to abuse their power on them as you feared. And as an additional rule, we should try to help to improve the page in some way. If it can be salvaged, if you can help the creator, then by all means do so. I agree that we shouldn't just up and delete anything that just looks bad; we as admins should help the people.
 * stuff about administrator trust*

Why are we so focused on deleting everything again? I thought we put the clean-up to rest. Sure there are still some crappy things lurking in the shadows, but come on. We've already deleted well over 6,000 pages within the past few years. Don't you think it's time to tackle some other problems? That and as Skull said on skype, this was a pretty bad time to try to add these standards in, as we've been trying to put focus into attracting new members. This type of thing will make any new member paranoid.

BlackJackBlack wrote: Screw the debate on creativity vs. control. How about seriousness vs. fun takes a center stage for once?

Because if you keep on this path I can assure you of one thing: you will get your quality articles in the end, but at the cost of so many users who just came here to have a good time. *claps* Well said.

Well said. Legitimate requirements is all I ask for. Something of a valid and specific reason that the author might perhaps be able to alter to make the article valid as you said.