User blog:RRabbit42/Taking back control of Quotes, Goals and more

Part of the clutter on this wiki is in the Infoboxes. There's a space to fill in a quote, a goal and a few other things like what they like and dislike.

Too many of these are assumptions or happenstance. For example, the T-1000 from Terminator 2: Judgment Day was said to like killing innocent people. Innocent people were killed by it, but that was a result of following its programming, not because it liked killing.

For quotes, too many of them are things the character happens to say, rather than being a memorable quotation. For goals, too many of them are things the character happened to do, rather than being what is shown in the story that they were deliberately working to achieve. For likes and dislikes, too many of them are things that happened to happen to them, rather than things they specifically stated they like or dislike.

It's part of an overall pattern of people putting things in just to put things in. They'll add a category just to add a category, not because that category is actually correct. They'll throw things in the Infobox so they don't have to put anything on the main part of the page.

This is something that I really want to curb. Get people to stop putting in worthless fluff and actually think before they put something in.

The problem is, in order to get people to do this, I would have to start blocking people, and it's not really vandalism. It is something that I can back up with research and evidence, and that gives it more weight than just being an opinion.

I really don't want to force the issue with blocks, but unless people start applying a little more common sense to what they're putting in, I may have to do that.