Blog:Addressing Some Things

I usually never get involved in online disputes. In fact, I actively avoid them. But I thought it would be interesting to give my two cents on the issues of Qualitipedia. This is something I don't think most of you expect given that I've made my role in the wikis somewhat known/unknown. So take it as someone who has been an active user for years now just simply addressing some of his own issues on a site he lurks and edits on almost daily.

The Quality of Pages
When addressing the actual quality of the pages, I think we all can agree that not all of the pages in the wikis are setting the gold standard of what should be considered a good page. I think it is difficult to for some to get an idea of what kind of pages should be on the wiki. It seems like the admins want users to mostly have fun, but also at least try. A sentiment that I agree with. This is not exactly a professional wiki nor do I think should it be.

If I had to compare these wikis to anything, it would be TV Tropes. While TV Tropes does have SOME kind of professionalism to it, majority of the time the pages on TV Tropes are written by people clearing having fun writing those pages and just simply want to point out the tropes that are associated with whatever it may be. These wikis are similar but instead make pointers as to why the general public considers something good, bad, decent, or average. I understand the struggle of trying to dissect what you like or don't about media, not everyone is a critic. When I first started making pages they were pretty shit, but I have improved some as time has gone on as evident by my Spec Ops: The Line page on AGW.

Although not everyone seems to get it or either don't care and instead make a bunch of low-quality pages, slap the Cleanup template on it, and call it a day. An issue that will be covered later. What I'm trying to say is try to not sweat too much about making an incredible page just try to make it as best as you can and have fun while doing it.

Cleanup needs a clean up
The Cleanup section especially on AGW has been growing and growing. As of now, that wiki has 272 pages with the Cleanup template. It's even worse on CGW with 388 pages with the Cleanup template. That is more than the pages with Cleanup template on both AMW and GMW combined. While many of those games do need to be on the wiki, a lot of the pages are so bad that they should either be sent to the creator's sandbox or deleted all together.

The Life is Strange: Before the Storm, Another Metroid 2 Remake, Medievil, and Train Simulator pages are so terrible that I can't believe they haven't been deleted. The LiS: BtS page in particular is a copy-and-paste page with a lot of the content copied directly from the LiS page and Wikipedia. It gets to the point to where it feels like a dumping ground for lazy users to use only for them to never come back to those pages. It's not just AGW either since this page exists on GMW, this on AMW, and this on CGW. I'm not saying we should remove the template all together, there are pages like Infamous: Second Son and Call Of Duty: World at War that clearly just needs some tweaking and deserve the template, but we should be more cautious as to what deserves that template. There's a difference between a page that just needs some tweaking and something that barely resembles a page.

TigerBlazer's Post
TigerBlazer made an announcement about his retirement from the wikis and made note of two problems as to why he was leaving. The userbase being filled with children and immature people, and called for Qualitipedia to be completely restructured due to its current shape that is apparently made from twigs. Essentially taking it all back to ground zero. While I do agree that, yes the Qualitipedia does need some sprucing up and the userbase can be somewhat immature, I don't think that necessitates a COMPLETE nuking of the wikis. I know he said that he will just simply reinstate pages that people want back, but to me that sounds like the Page Purge 2.0, and it's best we just...don't...

He also mentions the incompetence of staff. While we have had a number of admins that either were controlling or just shouldn't have been admins to begin with. I don't think we should be saying that EVRYONE is bad at their job. This also doesn't take into account that not everyone can be on here 24/7. Many of us have lives outside of these wikis and may not have time to be on here. Also, not everyone can monitor all of these wikis. Can some be better than others? Absolutely. I think the game wikis have better quality pages and effort compared to some of the pages on the movie wikis, but that doesn't mean we should just completely denounce ALL of the staff. This is also not taking into consideration on how the quality control of these wikis have been the best its ever been. I don't think it was intentional, but he makes it sound as if these are the Music Wikis from Fandom.

I used to go on the Music wikis on Fandom and they were fucking terrible. No QC whatsoever, the admins would hardly ever interact with anyone, they let people make really bias and terrible pages, and NOBODY seemed to know what they were doing. I became a rollbacker just because I made so many pages, not for their quality. I wasn't the only one mind you. So I know incompetence when I see it, and this ain't it.

Conclusion
I hope the admins take into consideration of all of these issues and help make the wikis better. That's all for now.