Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1432718-20161209025616

When I look at the suggestions being made here, I am looking at them from a certain point of view.

Most users don't realize that we have maybe half a dozen users who regularly do clean-up work. It's tedious, and not as interesting as adding new content, so few users really bother with it except in an occasional way. On the other hand, it is entirely possible to have 500+ edits in one day (today, for example). It is just physically impossible to keep up with all the errors that might be made, and new users are especially prone to making errors because they are unfamiliar with our rules. And to be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure how many users read policies when suggested to them by admins or experienced users.

Whenever we are trying to make a decision, I always consider ease of enforcement and administration, since I'm one of the few doing regular clean-up. This wiki is huge: we have a 50+ year old universe, with several TV series, audio stories, comic stories, prose stories, real world pages for production, etc etc etc.

The simplest, easiest to enforce rule is always best. A rule that needs multiple qualifiers is not simple. Sometimes we have no choice, but when we do, I will always go for the simpler rule.

Therefore, I can't agree with any rule that has multiple qualifiers or relies on some editor knowing production blocks. We can't use production intent because, first we'd have to define who counts (showrunner, story writer?), and second, because they can and do contradict each other and themselves. Using narrative continuation? Well, we've got one person here who suggests that Utopia, TSOD and LOTTL are part of a 7-parter. And that's just one example of disagreement over the suggested guidelines. We can't use any guideline that requires user judgement.