Board Thread:Community Announcements/@comment-4787430-20130328024410/@comment-7153552-20130329203037

Jimeee wrote: PsijicThief wrote:

However, by the time I joined this wiki - last month - the majority of major editting had already been done

I feel that to people like AzurKnight and myself this marks an unfair and unequal treatment in the nomination process. Firstly, the majority of editing is in no way complete. There are vast parts of this wiki that need major improvement and fixing, so that's not really valid.

Secondly, it's not unfair and unequal. In fact, it would be a greater injustice if people with several hundred/thousand valuable mainspace edits were shunned in favor of users who post only on forums and blogs. Allow me to rephrase the first part by saying that the majority of things I would be able to help with in any way are already primarily done. Skyrim is more complete than the rest becuase it's current. Until such a time as I'm able to find my disks to Morrowind and Oblivion, I feel rather useless in editting. I don't want to lead people astray in those articles. I understand there are most likely still plenty of editting to be done in Skyrim, and on the Online pages as new info comes up, but as far as I can tell they are being kept perfectly up to date by the efforts of those playing the games at the moment.

As for the second part, I'm not saying remove the the people who have made 'thousands' of mainspace edits from the running, or bump them out for the forum posters. Perhaps a weighted system on the admins side of it (rough example: Mainspace edits worth 4 points, Forum/Blog posts worth 1 point). Or if that's too much, as I know it would be for me because I'm lazy, then I referr a previous suggestion by AutoBlood that I seconded. It was mentioned that maybe we could have a second category for those of us that post on the forums and blogs.

The reason I said I find it unfair is because by excluding them entirely (there may be people that don't wish to post "permanent" information) then it feels to me like you're invalidating that section of the site. Honestly I enjoy helping people on a more personaly level by scrolling the forums and troubleshooting issues or things of the sort. However, if it isn't valued by the runners of the site, I can always find somewhere else to do this where it is appreciated. There are forums out there where all the answers have to come from designated people (moderators, admins, information 'specialists', etc.), so I would think that we would all appreciate both the chance to answer a question we know about as well as the load off all of your minds that you don't have to field every question and problem and petty bug-fix that comes through. It's kind of the point of a wiki-page, and I'm more than happy to help as long as my efforts aren't invalidated and unappreciated - not looking for recognition as someone great, because I'm not. The primary reason I'm still discussing this is because I still think AzuraKnight (who has been here longer than myself and helped out more in the forums, and has most likely had plenty more edits in the 'mainspace' than I have) deserves his recognition. I simply want to know that you, as an administrative and moderation team appreciate what your active members do no matter where it is within your site. At present, it feels like you value the mainspace over the forums and blogs, making us the perverbial red-headed step-child of the website. I can feel that way at work or with certain family members, I come to the internet to get away from that idealogy. If I can't do so here, I'll simply do so elsewhere. Not a threat, just a simply point to be made - none of us have to be here, we all choose to be. Give us a reason to keep choosing.