Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-4839682-20131031001247/@comment-4839682-20131031232501

Redrose95 wrote: Here are my concerns:

I personally find it confusing when characters like Anow White and Mary Margaret have different pages. I know this is a staff choice, but i presonally dont like it.

I also don't like how you have to go to galleries to see pics of the characters. why not post stills of the plot in the bios and episodes? This is something most wiki's do.

Plus you got rid of the badges, and that made me think that you didn't want people editing exstensivley.

Literally everything here was decided by community decision. I think a lot of newcomers have this odd idea that these kinds of things are just arbitrarily decided by the staff members on a whim, when this is far from the case. Since I've been here, every major change has been decided by community consensus. It's something I'm proud of. (Badges attract fluff editors, and people who edit just for badges. Neither are good things)

You CAN post stills that are not issued by ABC. I know, I checked. You can also post spoilers and plot info before it's appears in an episode. Like, the Ariel Character page, for example. You can post things about her plot, like "She makes a deal with Ursula and Saves Snow's life and Meets Prince Eric at a ball with the help of Snow." (Not nessesarily like that). You can also post pictures of characters in their info box before they appear in the show.

Sure, we physically can add whatever photos we want, but there's copyright issues at play. This is precisely why we don't use fan-made photos, or episode stills that haven't been screencapped personally by the uploader. There are copyrights on those kinds of images, we would need express permission to use them. I know some Wikis upload whatever images without a care, but this one holds itself to a higher standard. XD

The problem with spoilers is that they're all speculation. How does one know their spoiler is true? There are countless articles from the broadcasting of season two laced with "spoilers" that never materialized. This site is an encyclopedia first, not a forum, and putting information into our articles carries a lot of weight. If we start adding information that turns out to be untrue, we lose credibility, and people stop turning to us for information. Nobody wants that to happen.

Thank you, though, for sharing your opinions!