Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-30840516-20170210232306

If you aren't going to read all of this post, do not vote.

Nearly every single day, I sift through the Needs Help category and fix English, layout, logical inconsistencies, and much more. Sometimes I revamp the entire layout of the page or add an infobox. Sometimes I remove or add categories. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with the page, so I just remove the Needs Help category. There was even an article written in Google Translate Japanese. Most of the articles on this wiki are not well-written at all, and I believe this would change that.

Some wikis have quality standards to ensure that the articles there are clean, easy to read, and coherent. Examples are the Yokai Watch Wikia, and the Creepypasta Wikia. Those wikis have pages that look much more professional than this one's, even if those communities are larger.

The standards here would not be nearly as strict as those wikis, however they would contain basic requirements such as to write in English only, and to ensure that the information makes logical sense (in the Yandere Sim universe, anyway).

What the standards really should be are things like "The article must be at at least fifth grade reading level", or "The article must have excellent spelling, capitalization, and punctuation". However, most of the users here would not be able to meet those standards.

Another concern that I have is that I am often the only one fixing up the Needs Help pages. Now, in no way am I trying to attack other members of staff. Horizon helps out by adding articles to this category, which makes it much easier for me. It's okay if the other mods don't have the time to go through all of this and edit, I'm homeschooled and have all the time in the world.

If it was permitted to simply delete pages that didn't meet the standards, it would be much easier. Or if a template was put on the article, showing that it doesn't meet the standards. This would be an easy job for any content mod.

The Needs Help category could be reserved for articles that do not meet the standards.

 