User:Tali64^2/My plan to restore this wiki

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NOTE: Vandalism is no longer a problem on this wiki. This page only exists for archival reasons.

Hello there! I'm Tali64^2, and I want to clean up this wiki. The problem is that the users of this wiki don't want to change their editing habits to be constructive. That changes today. My plan to restore this wiki will take your cooperation to make it work. Here it is. Just message me if you have any suggestions to improve it.

The Need for this Wiki

Before it was turned into a cesspool, this wiki had a purpose: to document wikis with many flaws. No wiki is perfect, but some wikis are more imperfect than others. This wiki was not intended for hate. It was simply pointing out wikis' flaws so that the admins of those wikis could fix them. This wiki is important to the overall quality of wikis everywhere.

The Problem

People have turned this wiki into a free vandalism wiki. Most users aren't aware that a rules page exists, but it doesn't ban vandalism. If you're thinking, "Just edit the page to add a rule against vandalism", that won't work. The page is protected so only administrators can edit it. However, the admins have been inactive for a while now! Without admins, there was nobody to enforce the rules of this wiki. One user is replacing the content of pages with the lyrics to the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" and recently started creating pages with titles targeted towards me.

The Solution

The solution to this problem is simple: stop vandalizing. Vandalizing wikis is unnecessary, as vandalism can be easily undone. We can't simply just fix a wiki, so here is my plan to restore this wiki:

  1. Spam pages will be tagged for deletion, and the people who make them will be warned and re-educated.
  2. Pages without citations to back up their claims will be tagged with the {{Needs references}} template to inform others that the claims the page makes should be taken with a grain of salt and signal users to add references.
  3. Vandalism will be undone.

Together, we can make a change. Let me ask you this: do you want this wiki to stand out, or do you want it to be just another spam site of a wiki?