Thread:Oioiaussie/@comment-5222017-20120821010552/@comment-5222017-20120823180306

This is not about those specific categories. It’s about deleting non-vandalism additions without prior discussion — that’s what violates every wiki principle.

If you want to run this wiki as a dictator (alone or with a small group of other dictators), fine, but please be upfront about it, before others waste a lot of time contributing.

And about your claim that your decision to delete without any discussion was made by “the admins” (plural): Would you mind pointing me to the discussion you had with other admins about this? Thanks!

The table on the homepage is nice, of course. However … Managing active/inactive dinos could be vastly improved with templates, where something like ⟨⟨Tier2AirActive⟩⟩ gives the name of the appropriate dino incl. the link to its page. Once the active dino for that tier-biome combination changes, we’d have to change only the one template and everything would be updated automatically on the homepage table and all the other dino-related pages.
 * it still does not allow to link to the specific species currently active for a given tier and biome,
 * as is, it is a nightmare to maintain and it is very error-prone. (Case in point: the wrong species that has been in there at least since last night.)

Using copy-and-paste all over the place, you are making any little change insanely time-consuming — because any change in activity has to be replicated all over the place, incl. in hard-to-edit complex tables.

Originally, I would have been happy to help with this, but now I am hesitant, because I will not risk having my work destroyed without any discussion again.