Would You Vote For Me
Hello. I am Jake. You may know me as the guy who likes anime. Or as the asshole. Or that guy that never finishes pages. Today I come to you not as a Fantendo User, but as something greater. I come to you today as a Gamer.
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Okay no in all seriousness I'm just curious. We were talking about this in chat a little while ago and I just wanted to see what the general consensus would be here.
Would I make a good admin?
I've never honestly been too into the idea of seriously becoming an admin (any admin election that I enter I tend to drop out of), but I do feel like I would be at least an okay admin. I wouldn't misuse the administrative powers, and I'm on the wiki more than most users. Plus I joined the wiki originally in 2008 so I'm fairly know…
A UCP Rant
As someone who has used FANDOM powered by Wikia - hereby referred to as Wikia - for over a decade across a multitude of accounts, I have seen Wikia go through a number of changes. When I started editing on this site, Wikia's default skin was Monaco; one that I think is only now used on ShoutWiki. I have seen the introduction of the NWL "Oasis" skin, the death of Monobook, the removal and addition of a multitude of features of varying quality, and met a number of users.
From an objective standpoint, I don't think it's inaccurate to say that the UCP (Unified Community Platform) update may be the worst Wikia has ever done. I am not saying this because it's new; even after only a few days of tinkering with it, I'm fairly confident in this asse…
What makes a featured article?
Recently, I've been trying to figure out what makes a page "feature worthy". Featured articles should be the best of the best the wiki has to offer, right? But a lot of the featured articles seem to become featured not because of the content they offer but out of people just being nice and not wanting to oppose nominations.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate x DOOM is currently relevant so let's use this as an example. It's by no means a bad page, but is it "feature worthy"? Looking at the nomination page, it's clear people think so, but to me it feels lacking. I initially brought up a lot of criticisms of the page that nobody else did, and at the time that I made that comment it had five supports and no opposes. Since then the page has been made s…