Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-1458758-20140403200605


 * "But it's still a question: How will it make the Wikia better, when we already have Talk Pages, where discussion could actually have an impact on the articles."

In the note of asking questions. Cause the multitude of times I've seen a question asked on a talk page for the response to be "This is not a forum"

Not to mention, the forum could very well save us from repeating the same thing over and over. If you look at the talk pages the last few weeks, it's the same handful of thoughts strung out over the five or six new pages, but one forum topic could take the place of the majority of those topics.

And to once again retread old ground, the debate here seems to come down to the one problem.

People are asking "How will it improve the wiki?" as if it is the ultimate question as to why it must be done away with if there is no 100% guarantee of return and the obvious answer is "We can't guarantee jack, but it's better to have it and not need it, than to need it and not have it." How will it improve the wiki? There's reams of possibility above this comment, but how will it hurt us? Sure, we might get more users who mistakenly create duplicate articles or screw something up, but those people learn and become useful editors whom nobody here is under obligation to interact with on a personal level.

But without these features, it is just the same plodding along and while I won't call that the worst method, certain things, the recent debate over Susanoo and Shakujos and all sorts across the talk pages don't exactly show it as the best method either.

And before I get it in the neck for this, not everyone wants social interaction when working on a wiki, I understand that, but everyone who wants social interaction is not then, by default, some attention starved child. You might not want to talk to people, whatever, your choice, but others might want to be more hands on in distributing the information we've gathered here. I mean what's the point of all this if it's not some form of interacting? Even if you don't want to talk to people and tell them about this that and the other, you guys still show up here and make edits and sort things in order to better inform people, what would be the point in that if you weren't doing it for the sake of somebody else? It'd be like writing the world's best novel and having nobody read it.

I'm just a minor editor, I don't have all the answers and I'll honestly be surprised if anyone read that the whole way through, but that's my view on it, it can't do us any more harm than good in the long run.