Thread:Tdt30/@comment-4102115-20120714051723/@comment-4102115-20120715053106

An admin is to administer the site, not to dictate terms. If what you're saying is right and what I'm saying is wrong, then we'd do it your way, it makes no difference that I'm admin. It simply is not a matter of right and wrong but difference of opinion. I'm discussing it in detail because I do not want to wreck the site but to make it better.

To clarify, you misinterpreted my words - I do not think that the less contributors the better at all! I think the less need for contributors to be correcting data, tediously filling in cell after cell of calculated numbers is better. ie. I think standardising and simplifying the site to take away the tediousness so that contributors can focus on sharing new / more information.

It is a dynamic game, there will always be more players starting, and players moving on. I've only just started heavily "improving" the site, but it's been over 8 months since data has been discovered to be wrong with no-one else correcting those values. Even now, the Helen & Leonid information is out of date. The game now starts at Level 1 with a Helen and Patrick tutorial very different to what is used to. Then at Level 5 Leonid gives you quests to do, and Helen does not come back with her Quests until Level 7, so the whole issue of finding drawing pieces frlom Level 5 has gone and so the Helen & Leonid page needs disambiguating. No one has done that before I started beautifying and simplifying, and so none of my changes caused that not to happen. It was ages of people posting duplicated comments and questions all over the place about Drawing Pieces before I created an information page about that. It was ages of having Resources, Inventory, Drawing Pieces with no-one doing a Warehouse page that had anything more than Cell-costs.

In any case, I'll work on the templates, and if they turn out no good, they simply do not need to be used. But bringing this wiki site up to wikia standards I think will encourage more useful contributors as pages will be simplified, structures, standardised. Click around some of the buttons below "Around Wikia's network", I am only implementing a fraction of what is standard on the developed active sites. The sites with more developed templates are the ones that are kept more up to date and actively contributed to because it is standardised and obvious how to edit/add to them.