Thread:Magma Dragoon/@comment-366087-20151229002155/@comment-366087-20151230002940

I did speak to them first. Didn't get much traction as they are set in their convictions. While an admirable trait, doesn't help when all the admins are not on the same page as to how procedures should be implemented and followed. And that's why I'm reaching out to you, as you seem to understand and appreciate the value of allowing a procedure to play out.

I don't get paid for the hobby of any of the 30-some wikias I admin either. Doesn't mitigate that the rules of any wikia which has them should be followed. On many of "my" wikias, I'm the lone Admin holding back a tide of vandals. On one, I serve mainly as tech support, running maintenance for a community of Special Needs Editors. A couple I work with a small number of admins, and the only way we work is for all to be on the same page. And a couple more I'm acting more or less as a "regent admin", stepped to help turnaround wikias in the process of self-destructing with Staff watching to see if my proposed pilot program is worth implementing.

And contributing at scores mores wikias.

The one thing I can tell you I've learned from all of it is that Admins set the tone of wikias, and the success or failure of each depends on how they interact with their communities and how they themselves follow their own local rules setting either good or poor examples for the communities.

Look, I don't expect to "win" many of the deletions I'm tagging, but it all falls apart if some admins are willing to follow the instructions and discuss, and others are not.

Great Goddess! Sterling Archer is on here??? Why not just add James Bond and Our Man Flint?? Rule 6.2 says that this is supposed to be a *villains* wiki, but a lot of these articles are just listing allegedly villain traits of just any character despite how their Setting established them (6.1) using isolated moments and dialog stripped of inflection and context.