Thread:Project Predacon/@comment-10390252-20141024154633/@comment-4403232-20141025060610

BenRG wrote: I would argue that it is needed. You're just making work for later on and ensuring my contribution is lost.

I'll interject here real fast.
 * 1) It is not hard at all to create a page for the character at a time when it is needed, since it would merely be a matter of copy/pasting.
 * 2) It does not matter who is listed as the first editor on the page's history, as a Wiki is composed of the collaborative edits of ALL users for the benefit of all who view the site, not for personal bragging rights or glory.
 * 3) If it is decided to use the since-deleted page as a base for a future one, it's a highly easy matter to restore it, which would restore your name in the edit history anyways.
 * 4) As of now, the character is indeed minor, having had zero dialogue, and was only on-screen for all of a few seconds.
 * 5) There's even characters with dialogue on the list page that have done more than her, and they don't have pages.

This is not just Project Predacon's viewpoint, it is the viewpoint of the majority of the wiki and the entire staff's on the best approach for the professionalism and presentability of the wiki. Unfortunately, while pleasing the majority of the community, and ensuring the wiki is as presentable and professional looking as possible, not every user will always get their desired outcome. We do appreciate all contributions on the wiki, and do hope that you are not discouraged from future editing.

I apologize for this being longwinded, but lately I've noticed an unfortunate trend of users being highly upset by individual desires not matching the grander status quo of sorts, and I feel as if I should personally speak on it. For instance one user will dislike one page's existence, while another will dislike one rule. For some reason, a natural order of "most people having a few things they disagree with, but each individual thing being overall accepted" has lead people to feel as if there's significant issues where there's not. For example User 1 will dislike Rule 1, User 2 will dislike Rule 2, User 3 will dislike Rule 3, and User 4 will dislike Rule 4. Despite each user being in support of the other 3 rules, people will seem to take it as all four disliking the rules as a whole and a broken system. When meeting the overall desires of the many, the individual desires of the one tend to run into conflict. This sadly is a natural weakness of ways of doing things that has never been solved.