UDWiki:Moderation/Policy Discussion/Group Stubs

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Category:Groups/Stubs

After spending some time trying to clean up defunct pages, I've come to the conclusion that a lot of them are group pages. I'm of the opinion that groups encourage community and teamwork, as well as a healthy dose of comptetitiveness.

However, on the Wiki, groups are often created, by one user, and cast aside after a single update (the page's creation). This is frustrating in terms of maintenance, because time spent on telling new users (who I feel create a majority of the one man, never updated groups) how to create a serious group and update it well takes time away from where real work could be done.

I'm proposing the inclusion of a new category, Category:Groups/Stubs, as well as a template similar to the Template:Locations-stub with information directed back to Category:Groups, to help with this problem. A new requirement for groups on the Category:Groups page should instruct users to put the Groups/Stubs template on a new group page, so they will know what is expected for a group, where to find the information, as well as an incentive to create a real group, and not just a "stub" group (a weak or small one, as far as I'm concerned).

Groups who have had time (currently one month) to create a serious group page and fail to do anything beyond "Under Construction" or "We're based in Ackaland Mall and hate zombies!" are of no addition or use to the Wiki, and obviously of no importance to the user who created them in the first place.

I'm asking anyone interested to help develop and enhance this idea with comments, additions, or criticisms.

Thank you - Bango Skank ^{T W! M!} 00:17, 2 September 2006 (BST)