Thread:Abincyp/@comment-5888168-20160425224259/@comment-256004-20160426174820

@Syalantillesfel: I do not think you make your position stronger by trying to shift blame onto others. Yes, Abincyp has gotten emotional about this whole affair, but as the appointed authority in this case (I'm referring to your local admin privileges), it was your responsibility to react to the situation in a constructive and level-headed manner. Instead, you apparently chose to ignore it until it escalated all the way to the Community Wikia, and even tried to heavy-handedly shut your opponent down on the flimsiest of pretexts. That is not how a responsible wiki admin operates.

As for the format styles, I am not telling you to change anything. I am merely imploring you to write down the policies you are already enforcing, so others can at least get to know them, rather than having to telepathically scan it out of your head. If you would then listen to and incorporate constructive feedback into these guidelines, you'd find that situations such as this would not arise in the first place.

I believe you are also still misunderstanding the purpose of redirects. Redirects are an integral part of MediaWiki engine, and should be used where appropriate. Just as an example, redirects are an important part of renaming articles. If you are so keen on enforcing your no-redirects policy, how are you going to deal with renaming articles without leaving a redirect? Are you OK with leaving red links behind? Or will you require all red links to be fixed manually, even though the wiki already does it automatically with a redirect? Or will you perhaps forbid renaming articles altogether?

@Abincyp: What is this new ME series wiki I am hearing about?