Thread:Simon Peter Hughes/@comment-26102182-20161103001419

Hi there Simon Peter Hughes! Since you are the most recently active Admin at w:c:literature shown its "Recent Wiki Activity", I'm writing to you instead of spending time to find others.

(I swear I have a point, please try to finish reading this post. Thank you so very much! =D)

I'm just kind of confused about the whole redirect situation... Was  a redirect that used to belong to w:c:literature and was somehow demanded over to the former Books Hub, and now for unknown reasons, offered back to you by the Staff? Did people from your community have some sort of discussion or petition, proclaiming that a lot of them want to have it back?

I'm only asking because, when time allowed, I have been trying to improve the former Books Hub and its goals; to me, its purpose is very different to Literawiki. BTW, don't get me wrong, Literawiki definitely has more contributors and have more content. I'm not certain of this, but it seems like as long as the subject is in fact literature, they can be created as articles on that wiki. That's what's separating the former Hub and the well-developed Literawiki. One of the Staff established that preferably only books or book series that have their own Wikia wikis would get articles at the former Hub, and I thought it was an interesting approach to filter the content, for if not, it might as well be a duplicated wiki (with a Hub title) of Literawiki.

Anyways, in my prime editing period, when it comes to actually deleting pages or files, it was obvious to me that none of the Admins were really active, and I feel like I constantly had to request them to delete stuff (in order to prevent them being used again), and sought for the possibility of joining as Admin (or even Content Moderator later on) myself so I could just take care of the situation when it occurs, instead of constantly having to report to inactive users with user rights. At the time, they told me all Hubs were frozen and were not in need of new members in positions other than regular contributor, so there was that.

I didn't mind it as I have other wikis to maintain, and the only reason I asked for the position really is because certain editing actions feel extremely redundant if they always have to go through an extra step, in the form of requesting others to actually performing it. Alas, now the title "Books Hub" is officially GONE (when the wiki that used to be under the Hub status IS STILL STANDING), I was asked by the Staff to join as Admin, to which I accepted.

And now here's the point: No one seems to feel it was necessary to inform anyone (not just myself, but whoever that's also lurking around and silently viewing the former Hub) that the redirect was handed (back?) to Literawiki. It was kind of a real bummer to me since I thought I would be editing and taking care of a wiki about books (that have their own Wikia wikis), and we are entrusted with the title "Book Club", which in all honesty, feels very, very limited to me, and not at all what I signed up for.

I'm super sorry that you are getting a supremely long message from a person you've never encountered and are randomly getting to read this quite-lengthy-and-not-exactly-sounding-happy rant.

I am not in any way suggesting that you have something to do with what I went through, nor do I think anyone was really at fault; it just so happened that not everyone involved were on the same page. Which is why I'm writing to you. Again, back to my initial question, does the majority of your community feel that they need and WANT an extra redirect? Staffs seems to want the "hub" out of the domain name, which is fine to me, but instead of getting changed to  like what it probably was expected to, the former Books Hub is now w:c:bookclub... Whereas the former Music Hub is lucky enough to not be turned into something like , and gets to be simply w:c:music.

The point of this longwinded post is really to make sure you guys at Literawiki really felt it was absolutely necessary to take up that redirect, when its primary domain name is already so well-known and used around Wikia. If the answer is "yes", than there's nothing else I could say and I respect the decisions. I'm only asking because I read what the Staff have written to you, and it honestly looks a bit misleading, as if the Wiki that used to be the Books Hub IS CLOSED, when that's not even the case. All the content are still there; the Staff just got rid of the official orange theme and logo with a traditional home page.

Please let me know what you think whenever you are available. And seriously, thank you, THANK YOU, very much, for hearing me out. 