Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-9944069-20170505142310/@comment-9944069-20170506155807

Teacup Terry wrote: Bearjedi wrote: Teacup Terry wrote: Bearjedi wrote: Teacup Terry wrote: Bearjedi wrote: TheHugeDude wrote: No no no! That's the whole point of the thing. That's the whole point of the wiki, to show user content. If we delete those we might as well delete the userpages, because they are made by users and that makes them pointless, right? Userpages aren't on mainspace. You have no right to speak if you barely know what you're even talking about. 1, I'm pretty sure he has at least a fraction of a userpage and shouldn't just be silenced because he made a comparison you didn't like. And 2, userpages are off mainspace. So? You still customize them! The purpose of the wiki is to SHARE our knowledge and information about the PvZ series. If you think adding your own custom avatar to a gallery is considered "information", then I'd like you to know you are mistaken. How is it pointless if we're adding POINTLESS images to a gallery? It may not be information, but it is interactivity. This isn't wikipedia, this is the Plants Vs Zombies Wiki. We want users to feel welcome and not just be scrolling through miles of information. Why else would we add a trivia section? Most of the essence on this wiki is pretty much reinforced by the community. I'm doubtful that this thread's topic has anything to do with the mood or feeling of this wiki. Then you would be wholly mistaken. As I said above, removing interactivity turns the wiki from a fun wiki that you would want to voluntarily join, to a more boring version of wikipedia without even trivia sections. It may seem like a small change, but refining your view proves that you would be wholly wrong. You act like the examples I've shown are the only ways to express your creativity on this wiki. Let's see OTHER ways you can express your creativity: You can express your creativity in plenty of ways. And if you have any ideas for PvZ games or any of that nonsense, that goes on a different wiki. This was deleted, but I'd just like to reiterate how nobody's adding their ideas for PvZ games. They're adding their Zombatars.
 * Forums
 * Userpages
 * Profile pictures

2. Feel welcome? We have a freaking forum and comments section for every page. Is that not enough to welcome new members? Geez. I think you've forgotten the purpose of this wiki entirely.

I'm just going to argue with this one, since I am not in the mood to get into a big debate. The forum is even more unwelcoming as you need 25 edits to vote and some new users can't meet that amount or don't want to. The talk pages aren't welcoming- they're just "(Insert plant or zombie hero) in PvZH" or something along those lines. They're not user interactivity that draws in new users like the Zombatar page is. As a forum moderator, I'd think you'd know there's other forum branches. Besides, users can also use blogs if they're not feeling comfortable using the forums.

Also, a user is just adding his/her Zombatar. Totally makes the user feel welcome, even though they're not communicating with anyone. Totally. Roleplay and Fun and Games aren't much more. If anything, they're just the same as Zombatar when it comes to new users. Zombatar makes you feel welcome because you can add your own picture. It's like a page that you can customize, and removing that turns this wiki into wikipedia. Oh okay, so removing ONE single thing that a user can add their own version of apparently turns this wiki into Wikipedia.

It's a damn wiki. People should know what to expect. The reason why new users feel welcome here is our community and that they share their love of PvZ with that new user.

Stop treating pages like Zombatar/Gallery as if they were the only things that make users feel welcome. We already have plenty of users, right? Check the damn gallery and you'll see very few of all those users' names. That means the ones not on the gallery have felt welcome in some other way.