Thread:Supratim1986/@comment-30241447-20190314004330/@comment-10373903-20190315033828

Supratim1986 wrote: Also, when one searches for something, they don't usually type the whole name of the series or thing they are looking for. They would only type part of it. Like to search for first volume of "Arifureta Zero", no one is going to search using "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest Zero", that's why i shortened the links.

Also, since this Wikia is supposed to cover both the Japanese and English version content, i can't focus on just the English names. I have to go for a middle ground which would be balanced for using on both Japanese and English contents. Like for example, many who only follow the "Web Novel" series, might not even know that the English title for the series is "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest", and only know it be either "Arifureta" or "Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō" (same with those who only follow the Fan-Translated Manga series). It is generally a better idea to use official names over arbitrarily shortened names. While there is no room for ambiguity for official names, shortened names may cause confusion as names may or may not be shortened in the same way depending on the person. Shortened titles are useful to people who already know the series since it reduces the amount of time it takes to navigate, but for people who are not very knowledgeable on the series (who are likely to seek the wiki for info), it'll simply make it harder for them to find the page they want to find. It is common practice to have the official titles as page names, and shortened titles as redirects. Additionally, since this wiki is an English wiki, it should make more sense to use titles localized to English.

Supratim1986 wrote: @SerialNo30000324: Yeah, i understand what you meant, and you might be right about it. But like i said before, we can make redirects as needed, after everything is arranged in a basic order. Disambiguation pages are absolutely necessary for "some of the redirects that doesn't fit the usages" you spoke of. Without it this wiki won't be "arranged in a basic order".

Look, usually i don't like to take the lead and do stuff. But this wikia was already in a kind of dead state, and the anime was going to start soon. And because i like this series, i wanted to help out by managing things. I know you people might not like the decision i am taking, but this is the only idea i have regarding managing stuff.

I properly followed all the procedures and applied for the adoption, and only after clarification from the Wikia staff did i get a clearance to handle stuff (they did check my work on other sites worked on). Also you might say that i didn't inform here. But i did make a Forum Post here (as required by the rules for adoption) asking about it, but no one had been active here that often to look at it and reply. If you don't like taking lead to do things, you should not have adopted the wiki in the first place, but since you already have, you should try harder to be a better admin. From what I can see as an outsider (for now), the biggest problem you have caused isn't that you broke a lot of things, but that you pushed away some editors who've been in this community for a long time by poor communication. It is common sense to announce and consult about major wiki wide changes, yet I don't see anything of the sort from you in this wiki. And because you arbitrarily started wiki-wide changes on your own without even attempting discussion, you've allowed for conflicting views on what should be done for the wiki, resulting in the current inconsistently (and incompletely) "cleaned up" state of the wiki.

I highly recommend that you clearly state your plans for this wiki on either a forum post or a blog post and see what opinions people have on it before you start applying them. A community with proper internal communication is an absolute necessity to revive this wiki from its "kind of dead state" and grow it into a good and informative wiki.

On a note you should try looking at arifureta's subreddit or its associated discord server. There are plenty of people willing to help edit this wiki if you're willing to talk to them.