Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1687225-20130412225430/@comment-1687225-20130413190210

This is going to be a semi-long post.

The wiki in question is http://totalwar.wikia.com/wiki/Total_War_Wiki. In the total war game series, many factions have the same unit. In Empire: Total War, for example, there are fourty-two factions with line infantry. His policy was that one line infantry page (for example) was to be created for every faction, despite the fact that all line infantry are near-identical with very slight pallete swap and (very rarely) different stats. Of the fourty-two factions with line infantry, over twenty five WERE actually identical, with identical stats and identical colors. There are over three dozen units that have similar situations.

I considered this spam, and so created one page per unit type, with the intention of adding a section on each unit page listing the factions that can recruit them. Before I could do so, he immediately started deleting my pages because they weren't labeled by faction, and that's when I realized that I had a problem on my hands.

I call it an untouched policy for three years because his wiki has been stagnant for three years. If you look at his talk page, you can see that it is filled with complaints from people about him deleting their stuff. Whenever anyone brings up the ridiculousness of the policy, he simply says that it's been around since before he was an admin and that he accepts its flaws. He rules the wiki with an iron fist, which probably explains why it has and is continuing to go nowhere.