Hi everyone. I am Spydar007. Some of you may know me and some may not. I edited on this wiki for quite some time as an anon and have, in total, made over 5000 edits to the wiki.
Now, what I'd like to make clear is that this blog post is by no means a hate post, or a rant, nor am I trying to offend or put down anyone reading this.I am also not trying to tell the admins how to run the wiki.
What I am trying to do however, is give some ideas and suggestions to improve the way this wiki works, the users on it, and the whole system it runs on.
I left the wiki quite some time ago and I also quit CP at one point. However, I have recently started playing CP again and after reading through this wiki I think I can say this: a lot has changed in this community. Some pages have entirely incorrect information on them.
There has been drama. Some of our best editors have left/resigned, for many reasons. I'm going to offer everyone a bit of advice:
Grow up.
Stop with all the drama, bullying, arguments, disputes etc. If you're banned from chat or blocked, don't come back/evade and whine. Be mature about it and when you're block expires come back and do not continue. Listen to the admins. Don't beg them for things. A lot of good users left this wiki because of the behaviour of some users, including me.
In my opinion, this wiki is run by 4 year old trolls, not by teenagers who want to make a fun, nice, collaborative place for people to find information about Club Penguin. Look at Perapin. He trolled you all for a long time.
I also feel that the policies are way to strict. Sure, it's a wiki about Club Penguin. But that does not mean that we must follow Club Penguin policies or rules. Technically, everyone on this wiki must be over 13 years of age. That means they should be mature enough to deal with issues themselves.
From what I can see, whilst I have been gone, a LOT of policies have been broken by a LOT of different people. Including admins and bureaucrats. Now, I'm not going to point fingers or name names, but polices were broken more than you realise.
We should all be grown up enough to not need a Userpage Policy, an Admin Veto Policy, an Admin Authority Policy. We even have a Quitting Policy and a Signature Policy! I mean come on! Is this really necessary? I don't think we need a Demotion Policy either. People should be grown up enough to resign when they cannot do their duties. Wikia policy is that once someone has their rights, they keep them, even if they do not use them, are inactive, or have quit.
Whilst I'm on the subject, these rights should not be given out "any old how". Rights such as chat moderator, rollback and patroller should be given out, not for "good work" or "30000000000000000000000000000 edits on the wiki", but for showing that they are able to use these tools appropriately and are grown up enough not to abuse them. Rights should also not be given to every single user on the wiki, as is the case right now. Admins should decide how many people of each category are needed, and then, that number should stick. When one resigns, another one is promoted to fill their place.
I think that, in some ways, the admins here are too harsh, but in other ways, not harsh enough. Sure, disciple is need on those clearly wreaking havoc, but you have to let users have fun at the same time. Anyone who cannot see the difference and distinguish what is and what is not bad behaviour and just someone having a bad day or trying to have a bit of fun, should not be an admin. Non-admins should not get involved in other users business. Two users have an issue and you are not involved? Leave it. Don't take sides. It's none of your business. Let the admins deal with it.
Also, if a user edits a page and you do not agree with it, don't immediately revert it. All you do is create an edit war, which then spirals out of control into a massive argument. Not all things can be verified with official "sources". Do not have full-blown arguments on the users talk page about it, especially when the user has left the wiki. Things about pages should be discussed on the page's talk page.
Now, I may or may not come back to this wiki full-time. Whether I do or not depends on the behaviour of users. If I do, you can expect to see some major changes to some of the pages on this wiki. I am planning complete overhauls of some of the big pages. I think that pages should mirror each other in style; all party pages should be written in a certain way, with a certain set of sections. Same with rooms, games, stamps etc. It used to be like this. However, it seems like some users have just become lazy and are just trying to rank up edits and "points" in the heads of the admins so they can get rights.
Don't.
Edit here because you want to make a big place for all Club Penguin information, not because you want to have power, rights, and run the whole place. Take Penguin-Pal as an example. He has the most edits on this wiki (other than Wikia's bot), and is nearly 20000 ahead of the next person. He is very humble, and by far the best user here. He resigned from bureaucrat recently. Why? Because he didn't want his rights for more than 3 years. He wanted to let someone else have a go. Although I wish he hadn't done this, for the sake of the wiki, he showed his humility. This is how every user should be. Not on the wiki for power, but for the community, the wiki, the pages, and most of all, Club Penguin.
I think I've said all I need to say. I ask everyone on this wiki to consider what you can do to make a difference. Not someone else. YOU. Of course, feel free to comment below with anything you wish to say, I'm interested to hear your thoughts. — Spydar007 (Talk) 16:22, February 5, 2015 (UTC)