Requests for Comment/Creating a Literature Wiki Task Force

Bureaucrat notice: Regardless of the vote (unless it is a snowball oppose), this (and ideas like it for that matter) will not be implemented without at least some supporters who personally volunteer. --Raidarr (talk) 23:32, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Now that the Websites wikis are closed, it is time to turn our attention to the other neglected wikis: the Literature wikis. While the other six wikis are not of much concern in terms of content, the Literature wikis are not very active. I propose that we create a Literature Wiki Task Force (LWTF) to help improve the Literature wikis and bring them up to standards with the rest of the six wikis. I do not have any specific ideas for who will be a member, but I will not be a member. You do not necessarily have to be an admin to be a member, but you at least need to know about the reception of literature. This does not mean that members of the task force should stop contributing to the other six wikis, just that they will contribute to the Literature wikis. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Support

 * 1) As proposer. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2)  Why not?  21:58, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Oppose

 * 1) I'm pretty against this to be honest. I was actually about to re-request closing these wikis as well for a couple of reasons. My main issue is that putting up a task force to clean up these wikis isn't going be all that productive in the end. Your claim about the main wikis not being much of a concern in terms of content is very exaggerated. Currently, the TV show and movie wikis aren't really in the best state, and if anything attention should be given to those. Especially the former, considering that most of the admins have been ignoring it for all this time in terms of content and community. Second off, if we clean them up, the effort will be fruitless. Given most of the users gravitate to the main three wiki pairs and barely use the literature ones (Look at the recent changes on both wikis), it's not going to be worth it. We can't force people to use those ones if the interest just isn't there in the first place. Third off, related to the lack of interest, the wikis are just kind of unnecessary in the first place. Given the axing of the website wikis, it seems more people just want to stick with the main three wikis in general, and the literature ones in the end just end up being forgotten about, and out of place. Wing Commander confed star.pngTigerBlazer  22:08, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 2) Per what TigerBlazer said. Because the userbase of Qualitipedia tends to gravitate towards the main three subjects of video games, movies, and shows, focusing extensively on the literature wikis would be a waste of time. Such time would better be used on attending to the show and movie wikis, which are slowly growing into cesspools of toxicity and low quality. The better option would be to either cut the wikis off, let them work on their own with a separate set of admins like the character wikis, or shut them down like the website wikis due to a lack of interest. Marxo Grouch  (talk) 23:00, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 3) I strongly disagree with closing these wikis as they have an important purpose, but regardless, forcing users to contribute to these wikis is rather unfair. FatBurn0000 (sandbox | CentralAuth) 00:12, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 4) Same as the opposes above. Skeletacean (talk) 02:24, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 5)  It's obvious you don't see the problems inside of the Show and Movie wikis: Biased pages are more common, the comments are more immature and the community exclusive to those wikis (specially the Show ones) is the most toxic of all. This is because the staff ignored that side of the community until it was too late and now we are trying to redeem that with stricter control. They may need more content, but in comparison, the Literature ones can stay like that until we resolve all the problems on the bigger ones and forcing people is not the way.  22:10, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Ok, I did not give much thought into my support per above. Also, w:WP:SNOW.   22:54, 2 July 2022 (UTC)