So why are people putting charts in REVERSE chrono order again?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Gunmaster45

Well the main basis of the completed site is made by the 10 or so admins/super users, and the uncompleted half is built mostly by anonymous users just passing through. On occassion we get a good edit by an anonymous user, but would it be so damn hard to make a user name if you are dedicated enough to help out?

Anonymous users cannot upload images, so they can't complete pages properly. There editing is limited to minor text, so they can barely help our needs. They aren't a necessity to the site, and anyone who is can just log in.

I agree. Log In, make a user name. What's so hard about that? We should require a login and a user name to make changes. The good is well outweighed by the tons and tons and tons of BAD.....

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

I agree. Log In, make a user name. What's so hard about that? We should require a login and a user name to make changes. The good is well outweighed by the tons and tons and tons of BAD.....

And I have to say that at this point, I'm starting to come around to this mindset myself.

To be fair, I dunno how many other Wikis are like this, but if they have the kinds of issues we've had, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't at least entertain the thought of making editing for registered users only.

[Spartan198]

I agree with the suggestion of restricting anonymous editing. It'll cut down on headaches for us.

Originally Posted by MT2008

To be fair, I dunno how many other Wikis are like this, but if they have the kinds of issues we've had, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't at least entertain the thought of making editing for registered users only.

I regularly edit on a lot of video game Wikis (Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Call of Duty---mainly any one with a lot of guns) and they have their most popular articles locked so that only registered users can edit.

[Gunmaster45]

I tend to lock any page I work on, because it is seriously always messed up eventually. I recently had to fix The Marine because I didn't lock it. They changed the unknown pistol article to say M1911A1, except they knew nothing about the image links, so they put in the wrong image link and the image was removed entirely. I had to undo three good edits just to reach the crappy ones, then sort back through and bring the good edits back.

It's a pain, and I don't have the patience for the trial and error crap. You'd think if they screwed up so bad, they'd preview their work first and not just save the piss-poor changes.

[Vangelis]

I think completed articles should just be locked entirely; if someone has something to discuss, they can bring it up on the talk page and the page unlocked if they're onto something, but we're not like Wikipedia here; there aren't suddenly going to be more guns in a movie, so once we've to everything photographed and ID'd, pretty much any edit is going to at best be minor fixes and more likely be either vandalism or adding incorrect information and urban myths.

[Ace Oliveira]

Well Vangelis, that would be just too far. What if the Page has been screencapped every gun documented but it is missing descriptions and captions? What then?

[Vangelis]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

Well Vangelis, that would be just too far. What if the Page has been screencapped every gun documented but it is missing descriptions and captions? What then?

Then just semi-protect it as we do now, since it isn't complete yet. But I think a genuinely, totally finished article [ie checked by multiple editors, all captions, spelling and grammar spot-on, pictures clear and of good size, etc] could be locked entirely, since almost any given edit could only reduce how informative it is.