User blog comment:FishTank/Organized spaces on Fandom/@comment-34106721-20190923212118

I am honestly disappointed in the message this blog post is trying to send - focus on your readers over your editors. While I do agree that organization is important for a wiki, it should not be strictly about organization for your readers, it should also be about your editors too. Readers are equal to editors, in my opinion, and I am sure that many other editors believe this as well.

Fandom and its wikis are NOTHING without the support of editors, as well as with their readers. So there is no "editor first" or "reader first", they should be supported equally, not one before the other. You should make things easy for both readers and editors, because readers turn into editors. If a reader can not figure out how to edit, then why bother?

Categories like candidates for deletion should not be "hidden", sure, they should be separated from main categories, but hiding things for editors isn't going to make an editor's life any easier. Not all editors are veterans, not every editor has experience. We need to support all editors so they can grow and learn and continue to contribute. Hiding things from them will just frustrate them. I think the same is true for readers as well, but editor and reader content can be alongside each other and not hurt anyone.

I think Fandom overall needs to have more support for their editors and what they think - not just a quick cash grab that will get them money, affiliate links on movie wikis that nobody asked for, among other changes that editors did not ask for. Fandom should be transparent with their editors and support them because, as I said above, there would be no Fandom without the editors. We do volunteer work so you guys can get your revenue, when will we be able to get that same support back?