Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20150611114308/@comment-61022-20150623141011

I think polishing up the rules/guidelines pages is a good idea. I've taken a brief look and it looks like it's the generic Wikia info presently. That definitely needs an overhaul for items that apply to this specific Wikia.

I think in the meantime we should lock down pages of popular/major characters until we have all this sorted out. I think a reasonable criteria for what pages to lock down would be: All expanded history pages, any major or predominant characters that are currently active in the mainstream, ultimate cinematic universes, and whatever television series are currently active. (I think a good threshold is any character who has made a significant amount of appearances in the last year, and/or characters that are anticipated as being big contributions in the future, be it post Secret Wars, or an upcoming movie or whatever.)

I'm thinking there are two categories that we can lock down pages. Admin only and "Block New and Unregistered Users". I think with title or major characters we should set them to Admin Only, and supporting characters (Your Maria Hills, your J. Jonah Jamesons etc.) should be set to the Block New and Unregistered Users, since the likelihood of those being edited by anyone but more seasoned users is going to be slim.

With the protections we can place a message to users. I think it should explain that the page is locked while policies are being re-examined, but if they insist that they want to edit the page, they should provide a sample of what they want to add to the page and post it on an Admin's wall.

Perhaps we should ascribe "admin champions" who are more-or-less experts on a given aspect of Marvel Fandom, so a specific Admin is identified and so the most knowledgeable admins are having requests fielded to them.

I think this would be a good method to: (A) See what a user wants to add (B) See the quality of their work (C) Make sure they're hitting all the proper editorial policies. Reference tags and so on.

That way we can give them direct feedback on what they need to fix, if they're making an edit that is premature (IE: A story arc isn't finished yet and so on), it's too simplistic, it's lacking in details, lacking in references, etc. etc.

If this is a reasonable idea, we should compile a list of pages that need to go in lock down, and everyone can sound off on what fields are the most knowledgeable in. Maybe then we can start locking things down over the next week?