Thread:Merrystar/@comment-13918697-20141020024415

Hello. I'm sorry to bother you but I know that you're management staff. I have a concern about the TV Database Wiki that I hope you would want to be informed about.

I recently contacted Wikia Staff and requested that my wiki, Lost Girl Wiki, be added to the TV Hub on Wikia's main page. When I received a message informing me that it had been added, I clicked on the TV Hub area to see where my wiki appears or is listed. I didn't see it anywhere.

It's not under the Recently Featured, Channels, and Participate tabs. And nowhere on the screen did I see an area where new users can find a "how to" have their wiki become active in the TV Hub. Last tab left to look under was Communities. I have no clue what "Official Communities" within the tab is supposed to mean since only two appear. Under "Popular" only five wikis appear. Under "Hubs" you find what you already first see on Wikia's main page. That left "Core communities" to check.

Under "Core communities" you get "TV Database". I clicked on it and linked to the TV Database Wiki. There, at the bottom of the main page under the "Supernatural" category I finally saw my wiki. I clicked on it and linked to what appeared in the TV Database Wiki about it. It had been created on January 3, 2013, and the information was mostly out of date and incorrect. I immediately went to work on it and spent five days correcting, updating, and adding new information (including images).

When I uploaded an image before remembering that I had wanted to edit its name first, I added the file to the Candidates for deletion, then re-uploaded the image and added it to the Lost Girl tv show infobox template. Two days later and the image I marked for deletion was still appearing in the "Photos on This Wiki". The next day I saw in the Wiki Activity page that an Anon had posted a comment in the Maren Jensen page asking "Is anyone awake on this site?" Out of curiosity I went to the page to see what it was all about and saw that on April 2, 2014, an Anon had pointed out that the image in the infobox was the wrong actress -- and five months later it was still appearing in the template. I responded to the last comment and advised those who were interested in how they could change the image themselves.

Then, after giving it some thought, on October 12th I left a message in the Admin's (Brian Kurtz) talk page offering a proposal for the database wiki ("Proposal for TV Database Wiki").

Based on what I had found after becoming involved in the wiki, I proposed the idea for having Admins that would be in charge of individual wikis in the database because, as I stated, "One Admin alone cannot stay on top of a database wiki that constantly grows with additional wikis and new pages within existing wikis." I pointed out as examples the mounting pages in the "Candidates for deletion" that were not deleted, and the wrong actress photo in the "Maren Jensen" page that had not been corrected months ago when it was pointed out. Making someone an Admin of an individual database wiki would ensure that the supervisorial person was knowledgeable about the subject, and problems and questions within that wiki would be handled asap.

I know that not every Admin is like me and responds immediately to messages from users, or handles issues within their wiki in 24 hours. So I figured I would hear back from him in two or three days (keep in mind: this was on October 12). October 13, 14, 15 come and go. No word. On October 16, Brian Kurtz becomes active in the wiki, editing and adding pages. Still, no response from him to my message. October 17, 18, 19. No response, but he's been very active editing a multitude of pages and uploading images. Today is the 20th -- eight days since I left my message on his talk page and still no response from him.

He has totally blown me off.

Not only has he blown me off, but from what I can tell he has blown off others before me. Is this any way for an Admin to behave when this database wiki is directly tied to Wikia's TV Hub?

If the TV Database Wiki is simply one person's toy and hobby, then Wikia should make that known up-front so that every visitor and editor is fully informed about what to expect the first time they visit the database wiki.

As I said to Brian Kurtz in the closing of my message to him, "I do not mean to rock the boat or step on toes…." and I hope that you take this message as an opportunity to look into what is going on with the TV Database Wiki. Because it could become a great source of data provided by Wikia, or go to waste and become irrelevant as a result of poor management of the wiki.

Best regards, Virago a-go-go (talk) 02:44, October 20, 2014 (UTC) 