Board Thread:Community Announcements/@comment-4787430-20130328024410/@comment-7153552-20130328184725

Jimeee wrote:

This means that if the majority of a user's contributions are only on the blogs or forums, the votes for said users are not counted in this nomination process - as the original post clearly explained. Secondly, self votes are not counted for obvious reasons.

I understand where you're coming from with this, but might I ask why the forums don't count? It seems to me that as an internal part of the wiki it would make sense that if a person is overly helpful in that fashion then they should be counted. There are many aspect of the forums that are exclusive to said medium and either do not warrant an edit to a wiki-page, or the wiki page is closed to editting for some things. I'm not asking for my own votes, but rather for AzuraKnight. My vote him still stands for much the same reasons his voted for me. I've found his contributions on the forums to be most helpful and not something that would inheirently be valid or needed on one of the wiki pages. I know I've seen edits made by him, and I've made some myself, on a handful of pages. However, by the time I joined this wiki - last month - the majority of major editting had already been done, therefore the majority of my edits and contributions have to be on the forums in ways of clarifying lore questions, connecting the dots on things that don't link in an obvious way, discussing gameplay or bug issues more in depth than the bulletted points on the wiki page in question. I feel that to people like AzurKnight and myself this marks an unfair and unequal treatment in the nomination process. I'm not asking to include my blog entries, as they're all fan-fiction and character-story. I believe that if the people of the wiki and the wikiforums believe somebody is making valid and concise contributions - even if it's primarily on the forum pages - then they should be counted.

All of that is said to end it with this, though:  It's not my forum, it's not my wiki. It is, however, my soap box and now I step down from it to allow the mods and admins and wiki-gods decide the fate, I just felt it right to voice my opinion, and the opinion of others, in a clear and concise way. I'm not looking to force a change, simply to allow for the ideas of change.