User blog:Queen Misery/Category Scoring

this has gone on too long and users are reminded this is a wiki about informative articles, not a twitter type site that you simply add many categories on while ignoring articles themselves, thus new rules are in place.

Category Scoring is the practice of adding many categories to an article one by one, instead of all at once, this clogs up the recent activity logs, makes reverting harded (short of rollback) and more importantly makes certain users get "high scores" in terms of edits, which will no longer be tolerated.

You shall add categories at a sensible pace and this means when making an article you shall add its categories with article, if you feel like adding more categories later on you shall do so with restraint.. users adding single categories over and over will be warned and blocked if they continue.

The trend of simply adding categories without attempting to aid in other ways will also be coming to an end, users are encouraged to try and help with fixing articles, expanding stubs, reporting misuse and generally working with the wiki and simply arriving here and doing nothing but adding categories to pages is no longer going to be considered constructive editting.

When making articles you will also make sure they include at least the following:

1) name of villain, franchise they came from and at least one source to prove they are legit and not simply fan-fiction

2) reasons they are villains (grumpy, mean, "jerk" is not acceptable) - include at least one villainous act they have commited.

3) an image if possible, in the case of media with no imagery this can be left out (for example a book or certain theologies / cultures that forbid the use of imagery) - do not exceed 20 images on any given article and under no circumstances are images to replace text, an article must have more text than imagery or it will be deemed unacceptable.



at the same time an article must have more text in it than categories, this rule will be enforces as of now and I hope these changes will improve our communit and work.

for those who are troubled by this I'm sorry but this has to end now, the community must learn to do more than simply add categories all day to articles that are in need of actual content rather than fancy "tags".