Thread:Supratim1986/@comment-30241447-20190314004330/@comment-10373903-20190315104758

Supratim1986 wrote: @SerialNo30000324: The problem here is that, almost no one was online to discuss anything with anyone (no one even once checked or replied to the Forum Post i made, for the adoption for nearly a week). The only long term member who is still currently active is "LeXuS008". And you can't really say its a community, when the most number of people who had been active are around 2-3 people per month. So, i didn't know who to communicate with. As for pushing away editors, the only one yet who had a problem with my managing is "NejiHyuga2" (who has been active in this Wikia from Jan 2019). Pathetic excuse coming from an admin of an wiki. You say nobody was around to discuss anything yet I don't even see an attempt to open a discussion from you aside from the adoption request. The number people interested in this wiki is beyond the few that you know and your actions are greatly concerning a number of them.

Supratim1986 wrote: Also, even when i didn't take charge of this Wikia (i have been doing minor contribution since 2018 here), the people who were making edits at irregular intervals, did so as they felt like, without discussing with anyone (just because the renaming function was allowed to all members). Even the Upload of images have been done in a haphazard manner with no proper naming format for majority of them (if someone is a regular member at working in a Wikia, they should know how proper naming is important for management). Also, i don't remember NejiHyuga2 asking for anyone's permission when he renamed the articles as he/she saw fit (he/she isn't the Staff of this wikia, so he should have atleast discussed with other still active members before he did so, since the pages he/she renamed were originally created by the older Staff of this Wikia). As far as I can see edits on this wiki for a long time were extremely minor, unlike the wiki wide changes you're currently making. Generally, people don't start discussions to apply minor changes and this should be common sense. In a similar note, if you have the slightest idea on how wikia works, you'll know that image format should not matter. Furthermore, common sense states that you follow the proper title/localization for informative websites such as wikia. What NejiHyuga did isn't changing a naming scheme but updating metadata so that it is more accurate. You stress proper naming but it's ironic that you're advocating consistently improper naming.

Supratim1986 wrote: I know, my policies have been drastic. But i am doing so because we don't have much time left before the Anime adaptation starts in July (and its not like i can work 24/7 here, have stuff to do on other Wikia's as well). This is even more ridiculous as you are even aware that the wiki is in a bad state and there is little time. You're going to want as much contribution as possible and yet your're breaking more things while pushing away current and potential contributors. And if you're short on time to manage a wiki properly, why did you even adopt it in the first place? You definitely should act more responsibly.

Supratim1986 wrote: Another thing (i might be wrong with this), as far as i know, when a Search is done, the article isn't searched based on the link address, but rather the "article heading" or the content in it. So, shortening the links shouldn't create a problem, as long as the article itself contains the appropriate content. Also, like i said, i had taken the idea of short naming (not the full one), based on some other Wikia's who follow the same system. Search isn't the only issue. It's a matter of accuracy. There is a lot of room for ambiguity when it comes to shortening names. As long as your arbitrarily shortened names are used as the article titles, this wiki will be stuck with inaccurate titles and urls. Considering that you said below that you'll be restoring the old pages for redirects, it's even more unfathomable that you're insisting on your shortened article names.

Supratim1986 wrote: As for asking for help with editing. I plan to do that, once i fix up the structure of this Wikia, like changing templates (the character infobox template have many things which are inconsistent with many characters) and renaming existing ".png" images and clearing out older ".jpg" image and replacing them with new ".png" one. After i have fixed up those, i would be asking around for help to fill in for content (mainly on "AnimeSuki" forums, or the site of the current WN translator, where many visit and comment). The reason i plan to do it later, is because i don't want there to be any issue with what people are try to add in, when i am changing around stuffs.

Note: I would be restoring the older LN Volume links as a redirect (so that search issue isn't there), but i won't be restoring any which has wrong naming. You might as well just lock the entire wiki at this point considering how confident you seem to be about yourself. You just spoke of how little time there is yet you're trying to do everything yourself, and you're not even efficient at it. This wiki has a mountain of problems not restricted to templates and titles, but you're focusing on trivial matters like image format which doesn't even matter anymore. At this point I even doubt that you've been reading this thread properly at all.

I still highly recommend looking for arifureta's subreddit or its associated discord server. Oh and stop farming achievement points. This wiki doesn't need duplicate categories.