Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1738746-20150714113923/@comment-1251315-20150718161026

I've been checking into the wiki every so often and this thread caught my eye. I'm not going to write a massively detailed reply, but I'll summarise my thoughts.

If fan-blown theories are entering articles, then the problem is not that they were added: the problem is that nobody is proof reading articles often enough. I've read plenty of these announcements in the past month or so and the wiki seems unnecessarily focused on the wrong aspects. Instead of just adding more and more content, you need to spend time revising existing content.

There's also the issue where it seems a lot of the speculative (I mean, the really speculative fanon) content being added by anonymous users.

The only way that the problem will be stamped out is if the policies are rewritten and cut down considerably. As long as they're the length that they are, nobody is going to read them. In fact, my concern is that many seem to only do things as long as it's written in a policy: things do not need to be strictly written down for them to be removed. Hell, you can just remove things for any reason at all, because wiki edits belong to the community, not the user who posted them: if a user doesn't want their contributions edited by others, they shouldn't post them here.

Maybe the latter needs to be made much more obvious, or maybe it needs to be made more clear about what is and isn't acceptable in articles. Either way, you need to be doing more proof-reading of existing content, not just add more content that isn't going to be watched by many in the community.

Also, Bluesonic1 sums up the remainder of my opinion as well.


 * goes back to the woodwork to watch the wiki*