Thread:Mechemik/@comment-39845457-20190920183755/@comment-39845457-20191005020205

First of all, I want to politely reject your accusation that I edit "with no substance." My edits to the United States page alone have brought it up to the single-largest article on this entire wiki, with the single largest edit being over 8,000 bytes alone. I have created multiple pages, and have spent hours scouring sourcebooks written by R. Talsorian games to create multiple new pages. I have edited infoboxes, created infoboxes, added images from the sourcebooks and have been very active in communicating my desire to see this wiki succeed. I believe the quality of the edits show the dedication I am willing to bring to this wiki; and the work that I wish to do on it.

I am not however, in the business of spending hours of my own free time to write articles for the wiki and then get accused of "never" editing and with "no substance." The wiki barely has any editors on its own.

I am aware that this is not a book or film series, I have stated in multiple paragraph-long posts I am aware of that. I have stated multiple solutions on ways to solve this issue and come to a compromise. I have offered to share my Discord with you, and attempted to find other ways for us to communicate. I feel that my suggestions are either not being heard or misunderstood. I have only heard "no" answers to my suggestions, without any other suggestions of other ways to do things beyond how they are currently done. I feel as if I am attempting to start a dialogue and contribute only to be sidelined.

I am not accusing you or anyone else of anything. I strongly believe that we need a better dialogue between us to better understand each other. I think we are suffering from a severe case of misinformation and miscommunication.

I also do not believe that my desire to: see standardized formatting among wiki pages; to define the political and hierarchical structure of the wiki in terms of admins, moderators, and organization; and my desire to start planning ahead of time to optimize the category system for future use to ease the managerial burden on our users in maintaining the wiki in the long run, are a "non-issue."

Furthermore, on the last point, a big "bloated" page is an issue. There are multiple pages on Wikipedia itself describing why page bloat is detrimental to the long-term viability of a wiki and decrease readership. There is a reason I split the "Government of the United States" article (again, an extremely large article with much substance) into its own page rather than shove it into the United States page itself and see the page become too bloated.

As stated by Wikipedia itself, "Advocates of adding a lot of details may argue that all of these details are reliably sourced. Even though the details may be reliably sourced, one must not lose sight of the need for balance."

In essence, each page should have a certain scope. Shoving everything into a single page blurs the page's focus, affects its readability, and looks unprofessional in the long run.

I hope that the creation of the Discord server will allow us to have more meaningful and constructive conversations in the future.

- Best regards,

- Director Boots.