Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-14909251-20170109045918

Thinking of being helpful on here for the first time in a long time, I noticed there was not a Kuroyuri page and decided to create it since it was obviously going to be important one way or the other in another week or so from now. Almost immediately I was being told vaguely by someone not part of the staff that some "they" had decided not to create the page until we saw the location and there was more material. Not much later it was deleted by an admin. On many occasions I have had to deal with these kinds of secret rules relayed by courier service from someone who has no position of authority. Suffice to say, it is deeply aggravating and leaves me feeling extremely disrespected by the staff of this site. Worse yet is that it is utterly pointless, wasting everyone's time, and causing needless tension.

Had there been a written policy laying out what should or should not have its own page it would be one thing, but not only is there no such policy it is not even clear this is some sort of unwritten standard. Articles existed on Kuchinashi and Windpath soon after they were mentioned in a World of Remnant episode and were contributed to by staff with no incident, with both being about as short as the page I created about Kuroyuri. Unlike Kuroyuri, we rightly had no reason to believe there would be any cause for expanding those articles in the near future and thus no point in creating them as they only stated what was already in the WoR episode. Both of those articles were and are still shorter than several entries in the "minor characters" page that bizarrely includes the current leader of the White Fang and the founder of the Schnee Dust Company, who we can safely say are not minor characters in the context of the RWBYverse.

Should I, or anyone else not part of these secret decisions, wish to continue contributing to this wiki in any meaningful capacity or at all then there needs to be a change. I was bizarrely told by one of the aforementioned couriers that somehow I was wasting effort by creating the article early as though somehow it wasn't possible for people to just add more content or change it when there is more information, when that is exactly what a wiki is all about. Really, having an article already exist makes it easier for prospective contributors to locate and expand. Only wasted effort was my own since it has all been wiped and all the gnashing of teeth in response when the matter could have just as easily been left alone to exactly zero harm. Rather than making me, and presumably others with similar experiences, waste more effort with this place there should be clear rules about when a page should be created. 