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:::::New consensus was thus formed by new practice. No discussion is required for a new consensus to be established; if everyone else follows suit, it can be assumed that the consensus was changed. Anyways, I've set up [[Special:AbuseFilter/47|filter 47]] to catch these kinds of edits. Testing showed that it catches the edits I want it to catch. I've set it to warn only for now (since the outdated version of the extension Wikia uses doesn't allow for a custom disallow message) in the hopes that this will get the message across. If they keep adding it (and the [[Special:AbuseLog|filter log]] will tell), then I'll tighten the settings. —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 11:57, April 16, 2019 (UTC)
::::::This is only tangentially related, but we ought to devise some way of tracking ideas that have received either formal consensus or have been adopted into widespread practice. The reason I bring this up is because it is difficult to enforce a particular rule if there is no way to demonstrate definitively that a rule exists. There might also be disagreement about whether a consensus or standard truly exists if said standard isn't "officially" adopted by way of a community discussion. I don't disagree with the fact that some practices are standard enough to enforce despite having no formal discussion to implement them, but it would be useful (especially for new editors who will likely be unfamiliar with our practices) to have these standards written down somewhere. '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<span style="color:navy;">LostInRiverview</span>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] · [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]] · [[Special:Contributions/LostInRiverview|<font color="green">contribs</font>]]</sup>''' 22:35, April 16, 2019 (UTC)
==Editing restriction on [[User:DrakonoSkerdikas|DrakonoSkerdikas]]==
Administrators who have been monitoring the ''#administrative_chat'' channel on [[Project:Discord|Discord]] may know about this already, but I will explain for those who don't use Discord.
{{Userlinks|DrakonoSkerdikas}} has been editing since 2014. Their activity has increased over the past year and they've had a bit of a history, including [//sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=Fun&action=history&year=2019&month=3&tagfilter= counterproductive edit warring] and [//sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:DrakonoSkerdikas&oldid=887435#Use_the_preview_button failing to use the preview button in order to check over their own work]. They've also been extremely unresponsive and unwilling to act on or even notice messages left on their talk page, as evidenced [//sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:DrakonoSkerdikas&oldid=887435#RE:_Revision here] where their edit duplicated an entire article, and despite the fact that I left them a message on their talk page, they somehow insisted I [[Special:Diff/875307|didn't leave them a response]]. [[Special:Contributions/74.198.131.130|74.198.131.130]] has gotten into quite a bit of dust with them, and I think the bulk of it (given my own frustrations with Drakono) comes down to the overall low quality of work in their edits, which may in turn be explained by their lack of patience and rational judgement in their actions (as evidenced by a frivolous [[Special:Diff/882130|page move]] done without consensus or without heed to [[The Sims Wiki:Spoilers|standard practice]], as well as forum threads making irrational proposals such as [[Forum:*Says something unpopular and controversial:*|shutting down fanon creation because "I don't think I can word out my reason properly"]]). Many of their edits are riddled with typos (such as [[Special:Diff/884432|this]] and [[Special:Diff/885276|this]]), and are often filled with difficult-to-understand sentences that make it a pain for copyeditors trying to figure out what he is trying to say. They've also been known to have a bit of an odd attitude, such as [[Special:Diff/861702|this threatening message]] (combined with the edit war mentioned above, shows that they are poor with conflict resolution) or just [[Special:Diff/876948|wasting people's time]]. They have also been banned indefinitely from the Discord server for having an intolerable attitude towards other users and to the moderation team, having also been kicked previously for linking to NSFW material.
I recently left the user a [//sims.wikia.com/index.php?title=User_talk:DrakonoSkerdikas&oldid=887435#Issues_with_your_grammar message] informing them of their low quality edits and advising them to ask for help, and telling them that some users have suggested that they draft their edits in their user sandbox and having other people review them before they are published, due to the exceedingly low quality of edits they are making. I provided them a long list of screenshots showing them just some of the glaring issues in their edits ([https://i.imgur.com/xxwiTcO.png] [https://i.imgur.com/ZkbppXp.png] [https://i.imgur.com/F5SwC8k.png] [https://i.imgur.com/Cwjh05r.png] [https://i.imgur.com/tZ8c8EH.png] [https://i.imgur.com/sRFuhKc.png] [https://i.imgur.com/zqfTrwS.png] [https://i.imgur.com/A7fScpV.png] [https://i.imgur.com/OEyeTyx.png]). They responded with [https://i.imgur.com/p4hbihF.png this], as well as [[Special:Diff/887434|this]]. They clearly have seen my message and the errors I've pointed out in their edits, yet they still managed to make [[Special:Diff/887665|this]] edit on [[Telephone]], with the glaring errors highlighted [https://i.imgur.com/LR1jUcq.png here]. At this point, I started writing this thread, because it's become clear that they are simply not listening. I can't imagine why it would be necessary to have to clean up after someone who's been here for ''five'' years.
Drakono is, I believe, a good faith editor as they have made constructive edits in the past. Good faith, however, doesn't excuse their failing to heed to advice. Since they do not seem interested in drafting their edits beforehand, it is starting to become necessary to impose an [[TSW:ER|editing restriction]] on them in order to ''require'' them to draft their edits and have them reviewed. [[User:LostInRiverview|LostInRiverview]] has suggested requiring them to draft and explain their changes on talk pages before they can be published. We do not have a formal edit request system the same way [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Edit requests|Wikipedia]] does, but we can adopt this approach. In this system, Drakono would be:
* prohibited from making edits on his own to articles (unless those changes are obviously uncontroversial and wouldn't require checking, such as reversion of vandalism)
* required to either 1) draft his changes and propose them on the talk page for review; or 2) explain his changes on the talk page in a "please change X to Y" format
I understand English is not their first language, but that still doesn't excuse the recurring pattern of problematic edits despite numerous messages. They have also not reached out to ask for grammar assistance, which strikes me as odd given how they are clearly ''aware'' their edits are of low quality. To quote him: <span class="inline-quote-talk" style="font-family: Georgia, 'DejaVu Serif', serif; color: #008560;">I do know my edits have been causing trouble because right after editing I think to myself my edits end up looking like garbage.</span> I'm not in the mood to be editing with an editor that ''knows'' their edits are problematic but ''doesn't'' fix them himself and ''expects'' others to clean up after them, rather than fixing their mistakes and improving so that others ''don't'' have to be cleaning up after them. But if this is the attitude Drakono is adopting, then the two options I can think of right now are: 1) block them so they can't edit; or 2) have their edits be reviewed first so that at least their low quality edits aren't presented to readers. Option one is a bit nuclear and should probably only be used if option two doesn't work out, or if Drakono breaches the ER (as is standard practice for violating an ER).
Thoughts? —[[User:K6ka|'''<span style="color:#0040FF">k6ka</span>''']] <span title="Canadian!" style="color:red">🍁</span> ([[User talk:K6ka|<span style="color:#0080FF">Talk</span>]] · [[Special:Contributions/K6ka|<span style="color:#0B4C5F">Contributions</span>]]) 00:15, July 31, 2019 (UTC)
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