Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28063203-20171225010852

If this could be highlighted, that'd be nice, but going on...

The wiki has some pretty apparent flaws that I want to discuss, and while this sounds mean-spirited I'm not trying to be and just want to improve the wiki. So, anyways, I should probably start...

1) Highlights: This is probably ironic given what I've said above, but too many things are highlighted and you can find yourself with up to 15 highlighted threads in just one day, more than what most wikis get in a month let alone a day. These should be used sparingly and for either important matters that need to be discussed or just wiki-related events such as promoting an exceptional article or something.

Also somewhat related, too many polls are made! Geez, there's a poll every hour asking for people to make major decisions in an article. Polls shouldn't be spammed this much, and authors should know what they're doing with their article instead of relying on polls constantly. I'm annoyed that there are polls highlighted asking what project a person wants to do, the amount f polls need to be reduced.

2) Too many community projects: Pretty much every other day, there's going to be a community project that people will suggest and after a few days - that's if the thread is lucky - it'll die off and be a waste of time. Community projects are for the entire community and are meant to be big things held every once in a while, but there's a failed community project nearly every day and I'm starting to wonder why they exist. Come to think of it, I can't recall 1 community project that's been completed, the only one I'd think so far is "semi-successful" is Marvel New and that's mainly because Gazza and Jacky are still working hard on it, literally every other community project has failed.

3) Oversaturated content: This is a bit more subjective, but there's an oversaturation of the same couple of things. Warner Bros related channels (I'm guilty of this also...), constant superhero articles, adaptations and sequels to the same couple of movies and shows such as Star Wars, blatantly trying to ride off of other people's successful articles by making similar ones, there's rarely any originality on this wiki... Leading to my next point.

4) Lack of original content: A majority of the content on here are adaptations, sequels, prequels, etc. and very few are completely original. Even the "original" content on the wiki derives from other sources, and as a result, isn't very creative nor is it original. Catman whose parents died when he was just a kid, isn't very original.

5) Hivemind: On the wiki, there's a noticeable hivemind. Collaborations are almost always done by the same exact people and you start to notice there's a large group of people on the wiki that mainly interact with each other and parrot everything they say. Take the community polls, for example, everyone will have the exact same opinion either as the first person in the poll or whoever they're the closest with even if their opinion is based on false information or literally nothing as seen with Brady Gilwa's demotion.

I like this wiki a lot and want it to improve, this is meant to be constructive criticism so the wiki can grow and improve.  