Forum:Problems.

Recently, I've noticed a lot of people saying that our mainspace is complete. This is far from the truth.

We have HISTORY sections on our articles. We are not the GUN HISTORY wiki, we are the CALL OF DUTY wiki.

Our trivia sections are SO BIG that they require SUBPAGES. This is ridiculous.

We are lacking any real information on the pre-CoD4 games. But of course, that doesn't matter, because we're the Modern Warfare / WaW wiki, right?

We have over ONE HUNDRED article stubs. We are lacking more than 50% of the DS levels.

Take a look at [Halopedia's Master Chief article]. It has much better quality than our Soap article.

Chia and I have talked this over, expect to see something from him later on today.

But please, before making some one byte edit to Reznov, how about you go and fix up Call of Duty: Big Red One?

(Yes, I know this is not a proposal, but it will be followed up by a project sometime today)

--  EightOhEight Talk 17:19, May 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. I'd like to see decent mainspace edits again. I'm getting tired of most of the activity here being users circle-jerking over unfunny, "wacky!!!!! :DDDD" crap on blogs. hell, if I could, I'd like to disable blogs for s short time to encourage users to actually edit instead of using this wiki as a poor man's forum. Darkman 4 17:55, May 7, 2010 (UTC)

I have an idea. The Combine Overwiki (Half Life Wiki) has an ongoing clean up project. they make a list of pages that need to cleaned up and post a link to it on the home page. You can use this in conjunction with closing things like the blogs. Rambo362 21:42, May 7, 2010 (UTC)

THIS is the WoWWiki standard for major characters. Before we can even think of remotely matching this we need a solution. On the Home page now everything is blog posts, sure, it shows we have a good communty, but it's filled with people who only come on for the blogs, which essentially plagues this wiki. What's more, very few users actually help with the important forum debates, which causes alot of problems. What we need is a temproary block for blogging, be able to figure some way of stopping new users using them, be able to reward players for proper editing and also try to get blogs more serious. On another subject, we need a CoDWiki Blog Wiki. Smuff 22:38, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Like I said, I'd love to be able to temporary prevent users from making blogs so that they actually edit, not just post unfunny crap or whiny E/N treads about girls or whatever. Darkman 4
 * Yeah that's anything BUT CoDWiki. There's one slight problem with comparing this to Halopedia or WoWWiki, one that perhaps us all (even I) have not realiased. These games have lore, stories behind the games which flesh out the game, story and wikis. Halo has several novels behind it, World of Warcraft has the Iron Fist of Activision IN it's hand (Blizzard own Activision, rather than Activision owning IW), and is backed up by books, games and like Halo, an upcoming movie. What do we have? A comic book involving Ghost, who is now dead. We cannot flesh out our articles with the luxary of lore, so, attempting to improve our own wiki, we make that one fatal mistake, like Scottie said once, we bring pieces from another puzzle in to solve our own. In doing so, the article gains a generic design and blends in with the others. HOWEVER, in doing so, the wiki is no longer CoDWiki, it's Gunpedia, or the War Wiki. We need to fix this now:
 * Get Blogs under control
 * Get trivia sorted out, on alot of articles it's meaningless garbel that takes up half an article.
 * Clean out every article that isn't needed, reduce the content of the wiki by about 10%.
 * Use the extra time we gain from not editing these stupid pages to deal with ones which do need help.
 * Get users more into the trend of RfAs, Improvement drives, AfDs and other forums.
 * Get Call of Duty: Black Ops under control, it's in a pathetic state.

I'm not bitching, that is what needs done. We have to get this under control, if it means pissing off a few rubbish editors who don't want to come back, fine by me. It's the wiki at stake here, not the people using it. Smuff 22:53, May 7, 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not too much of a fan of blogs. As of recently they've gone madly off topic with as you said Darkman, topics about girls, girlfriend and other stuff like that. This isn't a dating service website. If blogs are to be used they really should be in line with gaming as a whole. Not necessarily CoD, just on the lines of gaming. I would like to also see more people putting effort into the mainspace rather than blogs. I can write DS articles (considering I own CoD5 for DS, as can Cod1, and err, that's it I think. When I get some spare time I could find my DS, pop the game in and start writing CoD5 DS articles. But as of now I am very short on spare time. 22:46, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah, probably not my thing to say, but the administrators should tighten up on these blogs, they're useless now. Smuff 22:57, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Darkman 4 22:59, May 7, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think Darth hit the nail on the head here with the mainspace articles, "there's nothing to do anymore." That's true, few articles need anything done, and what's more, the only articles which do, i.e. the improvement drive ones, are so shockingly awful that no-one dares touch them. Anything we can do about that? Smuff 23:13, May 7, 2010 (UTC)