Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25543325-20160128132629

Alright, everybody silence please!

Thanks, now I know you haven't seen me a lot lately but that's changing now. A day or so ago, one of our Moderators and soon-to-be Administrator, Brick Creeper, explained to me the case. What's the case, ya may ask? Well, the case with bad pages of course. We've been experiencing those since... since I remember. There were always so many poorly made, unneeded and generally bad pages. Whether it's balance issues, nasty concept or just unusefulness is beyond us all right now - Point is: We're gettin' rid of them, and we do this now.

So, while the rest of the staff has started their projects and try to delete as many  pages as possible within time availabe, I'm starting my own. Now, let's make that clear: I'm not offending everything they did/do - I'm the only one who's not been up n' runnin' through cleaning process they worked so hardly on. Therefore, you can consider this thread to also be some sort of apologize and coming with the initiative to make up for it. Well, anyhow, consider it as our first major project this year.

Back on track: Arguably, the best way to fix this whole mess would be deletion of all bad, poor and unnecessary articles. Okay, just how to do it? We can't do this for being overpowered - That's an simple thing to change, nor can we do this because of formatting problems - That's also an easy task to handle. See, the biggest problem isn't what you might exactly think it is - At least not conciously.

It's the stupid concept that drives those. ''"Sure, let's make a Sandvich Biome! Or wait! Let's copy that great sword from a movie I seen and adjust the stats to those in the movie! Perfect! What 'bout another Cthulhu boss? a Final Boss!" ''- Get what I mean? That's the thing you know just isn't right but you can't stand up criticizing it.

So, what to do with it? I've got a nice idea that might just solve't up. To begin with I clarify: ''I lied. It's not really a completely new deletion policy.'' Rather a small addition that'd make dealing with such stuff a little bit easier to everyone.

I hereby present to you, a very simple thing, The Voting System. Yeah, I realise. It's not even half as interesting as I made it sound. Time for quick explanation:

The system would base around two different threads, each with their own purpose. A similar thing to Sprite of the Week concept: The first thread would be used to nominate an idea for deletion and the second would hold the votes. Now, let's get to how it could basically work.

To nominate a page that in your opinion deserves being deleted, simply write a link to it in the former thread (No, War Mode is not allowed, sorry!), afterwards, one of our Staff Members will take a look at it and consider whether they think it's worth the effort to or no. Keep in mind that you'll have to be objective in your decision - No favoring or alike. The point of this step is to exclude nominated articles that were put there for trolling purposes only or, most commonly, simply excessively.

Our next step consists of the same Staff Member setting up the voting on the latter thread, highlighting it (<Subject to change) and lastly giving it up over to community to decide its further fate. At this point the voting takes place as a Right Nomination would do with people voting for either (Deletion) support, neutral or opposed. Each supportive vote counts as +1 while opposing grants -1 and neutral being.. neutral. At the end of time period (Proposed one week (7 days (Seven Days))) the votes are counted and their final score determines idea's future fate: If it's above 0 points, the page's salvaged. If it's below 0, said page's landing in the sad bucket of deleted dreams, sorry! Bad day!

As an author, you'll get notified before the deletion voting takes place and will be given a standard-issue time to repair the page, thereby, saving it from deletion. If you weren't around to save it, however, you can still vote on both threads if you wish. Still counts as one, though.

(It's also worth noting that not all pages would be judged that way, all spammy, blank and similar articles will be deleted as always)

So, what do you think about it? Any thoughts, I'm still open to suggestions. Yet another thing to consider: This is an early version of it. Everything here could be changed in matter of hours. That's why I'd like to hear all your feedback and listen if you think it's even worth the effort needed to implement it.

As always, have a good day guys! TheFlamingScyther - (Profile) (Talk) 13:26, January 28, 2016 (UTC) </ac_metadata>