Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-17114085-20141002034224

Bluesonic1 wrote: A "standard" Wiki?? That's what the purpose of a Wiki is!! The comparison you make to being advanced doesn't make sense at all and has nothing to do with the arguments pro-removal people are making. The argument we're making is that the RP boards go against the purpose of a Wiki. You're saying the Wiki will lose progress. The RP boards never contributed to the progress of the Wiki, that was contributed to by editors who added their knowledge to the Wiki.

Is school "fun and happy"? For those who like learning yes, those who don't will indeed find school boring. THIS IS EXACTLY THE PURPOSE OF A WIKI- to provide knowledge, a place for people to learn. Some of us enjoy learning, and we find pleasure in making edits and adding to the wealth of knowledge that is held here, just as some of you take pleasure in RPing. Have some empathy and realise that just as you enjoy RPing and find that "standard stuff" boring, we find that standard stuff, the purpose of a Wiki, to be enjoyable and we probably see your RPing as boring. Feelings aside, I look at this situation from an objective manner- the point of a Wiki is to be a place filled with knowledge and have a community built around this idea of knowledge contribution. If you want to be part of a RPing community, go join a RPing forum or Wiki and stop ruining this encyclopaedia Wiki for the rest of us :/ And removing 2/3 of this Wiki's active user base is going to help how? Losing that many users would only cause more problems.

Also, a School is a community in and of itself. A school is actually a very good comparison to the Wiki. As in a school there are many different 'clicks'/groups, same thing in the Wiki. There are the Bloggers, the RPers, the Chat users, the Mainspace-only editors, etc. A school has the jocks, the geeks, the cheerleader, the mathletes, the Music group, etc. All of those groups are a part of the overall community. Do they kick people out school for wanting to focus on sports and not on learning? Do they kick people out for wanting to focus on music instead of learning? No, you don't kick parts of the community out because they want to focus on something other than what the place is originally supposed to be about. Learning is the mainspace of School, yet there are other 'features' people can enjoy. A Wiki is like a school.