User:SZL/Overhaul

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Right now I am going to rant about the behavior of this wiki. Feel free to flame me comment on the Talk page.

There are various things wrong with the behavior of SmashWiki's community. I have compiled a general list.

Contents 1 User Behavior on SmashWiki 1.1 Policies and Guidelines 2 Forums 3 SW:YAV

[edit] User Behavior on SmashWiki

The user behavior is out of control on this Wiki. There are generally more User Talk and User edits than main namespace edits. Obviously, that's bad. I have found a few interesting edit counts that have over 50% of edits being User and User Talk edits. This is not pointing out anybody in specific, just in general.

• 334=66.67%
• 1,290=51.33%
• 1,919=60.33%
• 731=54.63%
• (User=407=36.93%)+(User talk=383=34.75%)=71.84%
• (User=52=11.18%)+(User Talk=204=43.87%)=55.05%
• (User=216=50.7%)+(User talk=98=23%)= 73.7%
• 307=61.28%
• (User+36=36.73%)+(User talk=31=31.63%)= 68.36%
• (User=25=5.98%)+(User talk=190=45.45%)= 51.33%. Also Forum=40.19%.

I could go on, and will keep adding people as time goes on, but hopefully this proves my point. Many will probably point to my edit count, but please note: only 2 of my edits aren't Smashwiki related.

[edit] Policies and Guidelines

Many users are simply ignoring SmashWiki's guidelines and policies. For example, the User Talk Page Guidleines are being utterly ignored, and many users talk about random things, such as memes, and ask for brawls and spend about 10 minutes editing each other's pages before finally going online. Many policies are being ignored and violated, yet nobody seems to act up on it.

[edit] Forums

I understand that this is SmashWiki, but I don't see why we have to have forums such as Forum:The Light... IT BURNS!!! or Forum:Where to meet new people. (Why Here of Course ^ ^). Forums should be about SmashWiki, not the Super Smash Bros. Games. Go to GameFAQ's or Smashboards for things like that, or even the talk page for some things. And(although this will get me incredibly flamed), I personally am not a fan of the Smash Arena. Since I know many users want to keep it, I think it should just be a simple poll on the main page or something similar.

[edit] SW:YAV

People seem to ignore this policy the most, along with SW:UTPG. Regular users have every right to point out policy, not just admins. However, people seem to ignore people that aren't admins, as they feel they can't do anything. Guess what, they can point it out to an admin, if the admin hasn't already noticed. If somebody puts a violation template, it should still be noticed, and the current behavior of the user who received the template should cease, yet it doesn't, unless put by an admin.

I will add more, but please consider what I have already put.