Forum:CSS edits from inexperianced editors

I am the only active administrator of Zombiepedia and I have been seeing an increasing number of edits done with some sort of template or WYSIWYG CSS editor. Almost without exception, these edits are done either on contributions of entirely poor quality, or simply to "spice up" existing pages with unnecessary/hideous color, fonts, tables, or margins that quite simply do not meet Zombiepedia standards. I would like to make it policy that all usage of CSS will be immediately reverted unless the editor has sent me evidence of (1) His/her understanding of the proper format of the wiki and (2) an example of his/her skill using CSS. But to be honest, I don't even know how to convey this policy to my user base, which, as you can imagine, is mostly quite young. In fact, I don't even know what they are using to make these poor edits, so I don't know what to tell them not to do - I've asked, and no one has told me why their edits are different.

Do any other admins have this issue? Any informed guess as to what the bad editors are using, because I couldn't recreate any of it in Visual mode, and we don't have those kind of templates.

On a seperate note, I was contacted twice in as many as two years about the possibility of having Wikia overhaul my wiki's design. I've always offered my thoughts and cooperation, and was promptly left hanging. As my wiki is primarily about the book World War Z (which generated a film due out in 2013 starring Brad Pitt - trailers are widely available), I figure it would be wise to take advantage of the expected traffic spike, and get Zombiepedia looking as great as so many other wikis. Any advice would be helpful. Thanks

— &lt;&lt;— Philodox —&gt;&gt;  talk 18:56, November 30, 2012 (UTC)


 * Inline CSS problems: You could put a notice in MediaWiki:Communitymessages-notice-msg and MediaWiki:Community-corner asking users to tell you where they are getting their CSS ideas from...
 * Design help: See Community Central:Community Development Team/Requests. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 30 Nov 2012 1:27 PM Pacific


 * I am kind of in the same boat as you in that I'm the only admin for the wiki but I didn't really do too much fiddling around with CSS in terms of the look-- I just did more coding with templates since that was easier for my skill level. From my experience though, a lot of the stuff I did was cobbled together from ideas from Help Wikia, Dev Wikia, and looking at the assorted templates and coding that other big wikis did to see if there was anything that I could cobble together for the wiki's use. What kind of edits are the anon users making though and do you use any custom templates?
 * Also, it sounds like maybe the weird stuff the newbie editors might be doing could have to do with the default templates wikia supplies us with...