Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5632187-20140928041755/@comment-25173123-20141013043444

Cosmicsilver wrote: Well I can see this discussion is going no where. I'll give the thread another day to pick up and if there's no solid disussions happening, I'll close it and the decision will be based on just the poll, which would mean no IRL trivia on any pages.



Just trying to propose some kind of middle ground here, since everyone seems pretty split on the matter. So yeah, thread has 24 hours to pick up or I'll be closing it and we'll be forced to go with the community vote. [Edit: note this is not direct rebuttal of your post Cosmic. Just using it as source of thought]

Whoa... I am not aware that we ever decided that a community vote/poll would ever fully dictate all situations? There are too many situations where the majority vote should not be a determining factor and I believe this is one of those such cases. And we should never be at the point of any decision to be "forced" into a choice.

Of course if we have a point where we need to make a hardline choice between A vs B vs C for the sake of continuity and the purpose of setting a common standard, so be it. But when it comes to censoring material on the Wikia then I believe we need an option for the minority view to be a valid view in spite of the majority non-support or even indifference to it.

We are talking about validity of information and worth to the community. Just because some (yes possibly even most) might not see an interest in IRL trivia it should not dictate the minority now loses out on information they might be interested in. If so then it can easily come to point that lore/pictures/videos/strategy etc will be removed at some future date simply because a turn on popular interest or concern for any of them. Because as we see now IRL has been a portion of the Wikia for years now and is being looked at for complete removal.

Just as in the real political/social realm we the majority have a responsibility to make a case for those with differing opinions as long as those views do not inherently cause harm to the masses as a whole.

I have never seen this poll as an up or down yea or nay option but as a consensus of shared opinions to see how the community is seeing the issue as it currently stands. And then a decision is made upon review of opinions and said final decision is made to incorporate ideas for the community as a whole... not for appeasement of the majority.

Soap box being now stepped off... There is room to incorporate material that will be interesting for the roughly 40% of people that voted to keep IRL and appease those that think the majority of IRL is getting out of hand.