Thread:Simsilikesims/@comment-30698137-20161211231306/@comment-417288-20161213083605

This is indeed the right page to communicate with me while you are banned, since on Uncyclopedia we currently have a policy that replying to messages on your own talk page on Uncyclopedia while banned is ban evasion. Admins do indeed get messages when a message is posted on their talk page, whether here or at Uncyclopedia: just a different sort of message (less obtrusive on this site than at Uncyclopedia, which leaves a large orange message box at the top of articles).

Spike actually has a lot of experience writing articles that were voted to be featured on the site. Lately, due to lack of voters, this means at least 4 other users voted for the article to be featured besides Spike. So he does have an idea of what comes across as funny to others, and what does not. Yes, he can be rude, particularly to new users, and I am aware this has driven some users away. The Oh Dear template, which is unfortunately what you initially received as your welcome message, is both a welcome and a warning. That is why it is less than charitable. I tried to rewrite it to be a bit kinder and gentler given that Spike seemed to be using it so often, and not for the purposes it was originally intended for. But he reverted my changes to the template on the grounds that it "was a mess", and was basically inconsistent.

I agree with you that just telling you the article wasn't funny, without telling you WHY it wasn't funny, was not helpful. Different people do find different things funny. However, one thing you should know about Uncyclopedia is that we use a certain framework to be funny. We style articles in the mainspace as humorous encyclopedic articles. Keep in mind that the article should be funny to others besides yourself.

Undoubtedly you found the article funny when you wrote it, but that does not necessarily mean that others will. Our writing guide to writing good, funny articles, is actually called "How to be Funny and Not Just Stupid". There used to be a redirect to it called, UN:How you might go about writing something that is funny, rather than writing something that is stupid, which would of course in no way imply that you are stupid, although if you are, we mean no offense. (Over time, the "long-cut" got removed, and references to it deleted.) When we tell you to read it, it does not mean we think that you are stupid. It may mean we find what you wrote to be stupid, if you understand the difference.

The Jack Whitehall article was "salted" because we do not want you to recreate the article in the mainspace (which is where the article has been prevented from being created from all but admins), but to work on it in your userspace. (See Uncyclopedia:Userspace for details on what userspace is, and how to use it.) If you do bring the article up to standards, we admins can actually move the article to the mainspace (and it helps if there is no existing article there when we do). It used to be the case that anyone could move articles, but we experienced too many "move vandals", who moved pages to completely unrelated names (unless you count related to the name of the vandal) on purpose. As a result, only admins can move articles on Uncyclopedia. Until you learn what is considered funny on the site, it is best to edit only in your userspace once your ban expires. You may ask for advice in making an article funnier, but I would recommend not to bother Spike too often, or he may think you are asking him for "babysitting" (which he is quite unwilling to do without pay). I would also recommend you ask different users for advice, but not more than one user daily, and no user more than once or twice per week. But before you ask for advice, do read the Beginner's Guide, How to be Funny and Not Just Stupid, and the other links in the Oh Dear Template (in the writing funny articles box) left on your user talk page. In the meantime, you may ask me, on community.wikia.com on this page, for advice on fixing the article in your userspace when you come back.

Spike has bureaucrat privileges on the site because he is the most active user on the site, consistently devotes hours of maintenance time daily to the site, and still finds time to occasionally write featured articles.