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It sounds like a good idea... I'd be down for a test run.
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The problem is people adding complaining, knee-jerk reactions. People that add things like that to the wiki, and willingly get into Edit Wars over them, aren't going to care about a note saying "please don't do that".
Yeah, but at least the note would mean they'd have no excuse to not know. They wouldn't be able to plead ignorance, so they'd be easier to deal with.
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Maybe I'm being a pessimist, but I doubt that this would work. It's not unheard of for people to ignore notes. In fact, people have been suspended for removing notes.
Even if there would be no excuse for ignoring the note, I still feel that keeping things as-is would keep the mods from having to handle more problems with those pages.
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Still, it at least sounds like a good idea on paper. If most feel that it would be more trouble than it's worth, then it would be for the best not to implement it. I'd like further input on whether or not it would be a good idea to try this and see if it'll work.
This isn't about the page receiving any traffic, but I think I have an idea for keeping complaining edits from being put on the page.
On the Broken Base page for Death Battle, a link to the clean-up thread is put and goes as follows:
Before adding an entry, please take proposed entry to the Broken Base Clean-up thread here
This won't solve all the problems, but I think it will mitigate unnecessary traffic without needing to put the page on lock-down like the YMMV page was. Well, hopefully it will.
What do you guys think?
Edited by ssjSega