User blog comment:Serza5/"Set in stone" pages?/@comment-53539-20140904072532

The trouble is I find as an editor, speaking from experience, I've been working more or less the same way since 2004. Certain templates seem to be laid out logically certain ways because they were tried and tested several years back and worked this way better.

It does take someone looking at things new to change the course of those habits, but the trouble is when you've been editing a certain way for ages... You become unfortunately resistant to change.

Bunai's added other things to this, but its like with the gallery section, as I said yesturday... I know that galleries can become run away sections, therefore, I know to limit things. But someone else will want everything in one place. So it becomes a conflict between how one editor(s) set things up and how another(/others) wants to change them. There is often a way to resolution issues and please both sides.

So when dealing with how a wikia is set up and how to improve and change it, you often have to deal with stubbornness or experience from other editors (who may have been around a few months or a few years) who will have their own ideas. If worst comes to worst, we do a community vote and let everyone else decide which method forward.

From experience, I tend not to care about how a page is set up so long as everything is uniformed so when you look at one page, you can look at a similar one and understand them better since they comply with the same details. It gets a bonus if its a simple layout even a noob editor can edit without too much experience (don't forget, if you make a over complex page it means editors who are new or don't understand get put off).

Other then this... I can't really say much that Bunai hasn't said already. Being a mod, Bunai has access to more tools then I.