Forum:Community "Editing War"

As of right now, I'd like to start a community-wide "Editing War". Of our 9,000+ articles, many are in serious need of rewrites and formatting.

Articles with out of date categories such as Individuals and Characters should be changed to fit their actual nature, e.g. Jedi Master, Sith Lord, etc.

Another major thing would be getting rid of all the DV and DV sock spam and articles, as he&mdash;as previously agreed on an old forum he asked me to pass awhile ago, although he only meant a few&mdash;doesn't deserve to have his articles here as a lasting legacy. This would also include links to his "wonderful" pages like the Fanon War Council and the like.

Anything pertaining to the Vandal Wars/War With ISV should also be gone. I don't view this as a major problem, since we did a good job of ridding ourselves of that nonsense earlier, but if we see it, we should change the links.

Now, some of you may be thinking about reaching article 10,000, but I think that if we were to attain that and have pages like the aforementioned, it wouldn't be worth it.

I am going to be starting on the special page: Allpages, from 0-Z. If you wish to start to help, please sign your intent below and which articles you're going to do. I'll go ahead and start with mine asap. Please change mine according to your plans.

If anyone has a problem with this, please give your comments below the List of Intent. Further questions should be directed to my talk page. Thanks.

List of Intent

 * NKSCF - 0-Z
 * Jasca Ducato - As many as possible
 * Gnosis is knowledge - DV articles (complete), improving template articles

Comments
If I ever become an admin, I can delete useless stuff, like articles without content, articles tagged with delete etc.

I'm not signing to the list, but I could certainly try to help with something, i.e categorization. --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 21:47, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Sounds great, Jack!


 * I'm familiar with "deletion wars" and the consequences. ;) --Jack Phoenix (Contact) 21:52, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully we won't have that problem. Gotta go for now, Jack. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm gonna ask 3PO for permission to put this on the SiteNotice. Later.

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Proposed rule:
 * If an article with a template the improving template is authored by a contributor that has not been active for two months, the article will be a candidate for speedy deletion.

This could get rid of a lot of very unwanted articles. It hurts me to be so deletionist, but Random page doesn't take me anywhere good anymore. I'll bet if Jack were recruited, we'd have no problem. Anyway, this kind of policy can limit the absolute power of the improving template. --C3PO the Dragon Slayer 6,000,000 forms of communication 01:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

I would so LOVE to help out on this (whenever I'm on). I would love to delete all those worthless articles!

Deal with the proposed rule. For those who are going for DV's stuff, this might help out: Category:Sockpuppets of Darth Coldheart.

Note to admins: That Category:Articles for immediate deletion will get very large. Please check it sometime.