Help:Editing Guidelines

I am fed up with people commandeering this wiki without speaking to me first, so I am drawing a line.

Scarbrow co-opted this existing page to describe policies, suggestions, templates and so on ... but these were not MY policies or MY suggestions. They were what Scarbrow thought my policies and suggestions OUGHT to "logically" be, from his perspective.

And I have had similar activities from Sebastian and Shelby. And while I have tried to roll with it this last week, I'm fed up.

So let's have a few things clear. Shelby, Sebastian and Scarbrow, you are welcome to HELP. But you are not running this show. I am. And I don't care that I'm not as wiki-savvy as any of you. I know what I want this wiki to look like, I know what I want this wiki to provide and I know the future of this wiki is going to be. And you don't. So if you want to be here, and you want to help Me in My agenda, and not your own, you're going to get in line. Or you're going to go.

So, Priorities.

1. Except for the bestiarychart and spelltemplate, which Shelby DID convince me to pursue, I want everything else stripped out of this wiki that has been put here without my say so in the last eleven days. This does not mean taking pages down, but it does mean I want every category deleted, I want every code deleted, I want every tree deleted, I want every imported maintenence template deleted, I want every fiddly note or placeholder or bymark or whatever the hell has been added without my say-so stripped off this wiki, period. You all feel perfectly comfortable inventing work for me by making me have to keep track of things I didn't invent, so I don't feel a bit sorry for you having to waste your time. You've been wasting my time this last week with this frivolous nonsense. Now its your turn.

2. Once it's gone, then IF I'm going to use it, YOU will email me first and TALK TO ME, explaining why it is necessary, and I will decide if I think it is. I don't care if that makes me old school or unreasonable or stupid; I have worked in several office environments where the work was slowed to a halt because of this kind of redundant programming nonsense and that is not what is going to happen to this wiki.

3. We are going to build this wiki TOGETHER, or I'm going to do it alone. Is that clear?

If it isn't, there's the door. I built this wiki by myself the first time and I'm ready to work as hard as I have to do it again. I asked for help. I did not ask for people to run around doing whatever they fuck they wanted.

Now, if you want to find me, and talk to me, about why you shouldn't have to take down your categories, trees and whatever else, I'll listen. But I'm through wasting my time on things I don't care about.