Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-7091122-20160730012800

'THIS IS NOT A VOTE THREAD. DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYTHING, SINCE THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS FOR.'

There are several reasons on voting threads that bother people, or are plain invalid. Bluntly claiming low edit numbers = power hungriness, instead of considering it a trait, for instance. Per examples are a recurring debate. Just general reasons for supporting/opposing that are considered invalid.

But one I never see anybody mention, or bat an eye at, is a very community-based one, that really needs to be addressed.

"This is the PvZ Wiki."

This argument frequently pops up in community related suggestions. Not mainspace, community.

Say someone asks, "Hey, can we add an off-topic branch?", not aware that General Discussion is that branch. (Which that's its own problem that I won't even touch.) They immediately get opposed, for the fact that "this is the PvZ wiki, not the [thing] wiki. Go to the [thing] wiki if you wanna talk about [thing]." ...Even if that wiki's entirely dead, even if they wanted to talk about that topic with the users here, they'll get told these things, repeatedly... And once it's opposed, 2 months later, the scenario repeats all over again, with no solution to it in sight.

Say someone asks, "Hey, can you add this emoticon for this game I like?", just because they're on chat frequently, they mention it often, and it's gained a name in the community, and wanted this sort of thing. "This is the PvZ Wiki. Emoticons for things not related to PvZ shouldn't be here." ...Even when we have emoticons for stuff like the users, and the in-jokes here.

Nothing's inherently wrong with wanting these things! Sometimes people want to talk about something other than Plants vs. Zombies with our community here, and you know what? There shouldn't be anything wrong with that! That's just silly to repeatedly deny that sort of thing, just because this is the PvZ Wiki...

And bear in mind, even if this is the PvZ Wiki, these are all related to the community. And none of these ever involve the mainspace. You never see someone suggest to put Mario in the theme for a reason; because that's mainspace! Everybody can see that! But a Mario emoticon on chat isn't unreasonable to want in the slightest! Mario's a very iconic character, and I know several Paper Mario/Mario & Luigi fans from this very wiki; heck, there were some emoticons for the games, even though this is the PvZ Wiki!

So really, why are we shooting down community ideas for mainspace reasons? It's like denying someone from making a page in mainspace because they have under 25 edits. It's just absurd! And honestly, if you want people to stop asking for an "off-topic" branch when General Discussion already fulfills that task, aside from the obvious idea to re-name General Discussion to make it more obvious as to what it's meant for, maybe stop shooting that idea down because it's "the PvZ Wiki," even though that has no bearing on the community.

'THIS IS NOT A VOTE THREAD. DO NOT VOTE FOR ANYTHING, SINCE THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS FOR.' 