Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20150106201659/@comment-1738746-20150116002409

I completely agree with you on the user image policy, because that actually poses a problem to the Wiki, having the place over-run with unrelated files. I also strongly agree on the signature use aspect, as it impacts people being able to talk well with one another and get work done on the Wiki. But some random person putting nonesense on their user page, is not causing technical problems for the Wiki. Their stuff stays on their page; if people never visit their page, they won't even know that said stuff exists.

If the Wiki is going to turn into a full-out social network, it will be through the forums and chat where they can talk to one another, not because someone decides to post their characters on their page which will probably only be seen by 2% of the community. Trying to police everyone's User Page just seems like a massive task to do with little benefit to get out of in the end- the cost seems greater than the benefit.

So what if people post nonesense on their user page- that's not what the Wiki is for/intended for. Well, the Wiki isn't a role-playing forum either, yet that exists. I'm not much of a roleplayer anymore (and I've never RPed TES) but I know for a lot of people, they consider it a big aspect of themselves. In a way, what they post on their profile describes them by extension, through their characters and stories, so technically it's still doing it's job of describing the person. It only lacks the element of describing the person's contributions to the Wiki. But again, the majority of people will never see the stuff they post on their user page anyway...