Thread:Nelmamoohead/@comment-25543325-20160315215111

G'day sir, my name's Scythe or Scyther. How're ya doin' today?

A'ight, I assume you're the proper owner, head administrator or "head curator" here so I decided to adress this message directly to you, sir. First of all, I'm not one of those sick kiddos which pray for ranks. I'm an avid Wiki-ing and an Administrator on Terraria Fan Ideas Wiki, I've already have some experience with Javascript (Basic albeit fluent enough), CSS code and that kind of stuff, I'm a friendly user and also a quite big LittleBigPlanet fan from the very first game. Secondly - I repeat - this is not a begging-type message.

Now, introductions aside, let's move on to the important part. Mainly, the few issues I've seen on this site in general. See, the LittleBigPlanet fandom isn't the biggest one, what else can I say. And without any proper source of information (Aside from in-game) players can get pretty confused sometimes. The point is, I've experienced it myself; I was looking for a proper list of costumes one day and stumbled upon this wiki. At first I was excited to find out there actually is a wikia for that, wooh, that's pretty neat! But then, I realised just how little information can be found here. Aside from the most basic, general notes there's nothing valuable to be found in there. I'm acknowledged with the fact the game doesn't has much references, trivia points or easter eggs to write a list of (Well, I guess there are songs..) but if such important section as costumes lacks the most basic information then we've got a problem. I'll bring ya a good example of that - Both the Temples and a Wedding lack the list of levels, short description of the story or (In case of the former) a notice 'bout its curator. Now, let's compare those troublesome two to a better, fresher article, Da Vinci's Hideout for instance: It has enemies' list, characters' list, levels' list and a background. I'd also personally add an icon, a short back up on the story and an infobox to contain it all (Although I'll talk 'bout this subject in the later part of ze' message). That's a fine piece'a, could be still improved but enough to satisfy any news-hungry sack-tzing. My point is, the site doesn't actually provide enough useful information that is commonly searched for. I really wish it would be improved

So, well, I've gave ya lot's o' criticism, didn't I? In all honesty, I'm sorry for that but I guess it had to be said sooner or later, but nevertheless - Let's be constructive here. I think that a proper solution to actually fix that (Or those) issue(s) would be to:
 * A - Provide more information about common subjects and simplify their categorization:
 * That's the easiest one. I'd recommend rewriting some stuff and set up a proper style for each page type. For sake of simplicity, I think it'd be wise to held all costumes on their respective characters' pages in form of a table (More information below), maintain all one-type pages which would be too difficult to function alone on a single page (Just the way Materials are formatted right now) and perhaps avoid making a separate article for something that can be easily put along the others (I still haven't noticed any kind of the latter issue here yet but that's still important enough to atleast mention).
 * B - Get more usage outta Infoboxes as well as Tables:
 * I'm not really a fan of those as I prefer handwriting most important pieces of text although nobody can deny how helpful those things are. They can cut ya'r work in half and make't a lot easier. Infoboxes could be added to the each theme-related page to provide basic info about it, namely: Name, Inspiration, Place in player's progression, Boss (LBP 2 onwards), Creator Curator and its respective game.
 * Tables, on the other hand, could be used in various situations, I'd like to see one as a categorization device - Simply put a table listing every game's theme on each theme-type page, same would go to Creator Curators, popit tools, levels in single theme and soundtracks.
 * I'd also love to see a table in more general and bigger type of articles such as costumes. Simply make a table that'll list their most important aspects, I'll take the costumes as an example: Costume name, pieces, character (LBP 3-related), game, image, place of obtaining (Theme and level name), and (Optionally) a short note of how to obtain each piece.
 * C - Hire/Employ someone with appropriate equipment to take some in-game photos:
 * Any kind of photos will benefit wikia greatly and that's the easiest way to do so providing none of the staff doesn't have such gear themselves. Certain articles like Costumes or Materials are quite useless without any images. If needed as an additional motivation, such helpful person could receive a low-job rank such as a rollback or, in best case, a moderator.

I really think those changes would benefit your wikia greatly and really help gain more popularity (And usage). I do have one small note though: I'm sincerely sorry for any grammar mistakes I make - I'm a actually a Polish guy currenly livin' in Germany - English is my third language. As a closing note I once again remind you that this is not a please-gimme-admin-type message. In all due respect, I barely find time to edit on my home wikia 'round the week so yet another part-time job as I like to call it isn't for me. Although after all, I would very glad to help implement those changes if you all, the staff, will find it necessary or worth the effort anytime soon.

Until then, Scyther logs out. 