Thread:Timothy Compton/@comment-5737527-20140916194909

This has bothered me for a while, but it took a conversation with a friend to make me actually try to do something about it.

Some of the series here are. . . well, just plain bad. "Adaptations" of Sentai that only change the names, Mary Sue-centric fics, stuff by people who really should just write in their native languages instead of butchering English, or canon with a few character names swapped around. And frankly, it's not doing the wiki any favors. I know you want this place to be somewhere people can just play with their ideas, but if we allow every random, stupid concept in without any help or criticism, it'll make the whole wiki look less professional. Having five hundred pages means nothing if four hundred of those pages are gibberish or stubs or both.

Can we please make some entry-level requirements? I mean anything, like "you have to have an account to create your own series" or "you may only make two series as a beginner; you have to hit another level in the community before you make more". Being able to give con crit would also be great, as I'm sure you've noticed.

I'm aware this will cut down on our page count drastically. We may even end up alienating some of our users, but honestly, I think this will improve the wiki overall. At the very least it'll help us get it under control again, because right now, this place is a chaotic mess.

I'll be posting this around to all the admins because I think this is a critical issue.  