Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4799587-20140926205622/@comment-3293219-20140926233628

I personally wonder, is the lack of edits in the main space really the fault of the RPing boards? I can't help but get the feeling that there seems to be a mindset that moving the boards will result in a massive reformation, in which most of the minimalist RPers will change their attention from the RPing board and move it to the main space, when in reality, you will just lose most of your traffic.

It'll be like the Truman show, where everyone stops and says 'now what?' Then? They'll probably just leave and do something else, I highly doubt that eliminating the RPing board will also bring in a new wave of main space editors.

I have personally edited in the main space dozens of times, though most of my edits are in the RPing board. The reason for my lack of edits is simply because the wiki currently knows more about the TES games than I do. I can't add any information, since most of the stuff that I know has already been recorded, that fact won't change by removing the RPing boards. I've spoken to several people, who would all say the same. I've added thing, when they're needed but in reality, they aren't needed all that often.

This wiki isn't an RPing wiki, that maybe true but RP is just a tiny aspect, an enclave which doesn't really have any effect on the rest of the mainspace and therefore does no harm. I've heard people compare it to a tumour and though it saddens me to think that, that is the way that people see it, it's a benign tumour at best and in my view, it's quite beneficial, considering all the traffic that it earns you for just providing the space.

Only once have I seen RP drama get out of hand and the result of that was the particular user involve crying over to an admin's talk page and the message was pretty much ignored. The wiki has never ground to a halt because of it, RPers have always been good (for the most part) at containing the fallout brought on by drama to the threads that they originate and individual talk pages. The RPing board mostly consists of mature or at least reserved people, who mostly keep to themselves, so I don't see how it is disruptive.

Personally, I think that it would be a big mistake to move the RP board, it would barely effect me, provided that I had time to back everything up of course (since no offence but I don't 100% trust this transfer thing) but I seriously don't think it's a good idea for anyone's sake.