Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35528501-20180609184833/@comment-30144972-20180610004238

Please reconsider the implementation of this rule. As a critic, I feel like banning the ability to critique grammar staggers an author’s development of not only learning the basic fundamentals of English, but also the encouragement to proofread their articles. Both editing, the process of checking grammar, and revising, the process of editing the story and its pacing, are two equally important processes as an author.

However, I would also like to point out that I also take the possibility that English may not be the author’s first language. If so, I completely take out grammar as a factor when stated otherwise. Though, that doesn’t stop me from helping them with basic aspects of English like punctuation and capitalization.

Remember, as a critic, my goal isn’t to make this wikia a “professional” wikia (I agree; critiquing articles for the sake of quality control is useless.), my goal is to help authors develop their story and future stories with critique. I aim to help authors who have recently created a story, and help them along the way - step by step. Besides, criticism is only useful when authors are willing to acknowledge it; I give critique to people who want or answer criticism on their page.

I would also like to point out that by implementing this rule would only contradict the wikia’s guidelines for quality control. Why delete articles for their grammar if we’re not allowed to critique grammar in the first place? The wikia is currently in a limbo state between professionalism and unprofessionalism.

Tl;dr, implementing this rule would discourage critique and worsen the wikia’s health.

Thank you to whomever read this.


 * ~Blitzwolfer