User blog comment:Waterkai/Considering Applications: An Attempt Without Bias/@comment-28861328-20140502141830

See, now, this is where I have to be the bearer of bad news.

The attempts to show the "pros" of the application policy all make one fatal flaw and assume that everyone on this fanon shares the same fanon universe. They don't. Even if 99% of them do, the 1% that don't shouldn't be subjected to a rule designed around that assumption. "Uchiha should be rare", "certain kekkei genkai should be rare".

This wiki is a repository of information.

Like it or lump it, the admins don't get to choose who gets what.

I'll use the example of Star Wars Fanon. Do any of you have any idea how big that fanon is? How large the userbase is? Now do any of you want to take a guess at how many Force-users, Jedi or Sith, are running around that site? Hm? For those not familiar with Star Wars, those two groups of Force users are small by nature. And I mean, very small. There are probably a couple thousand Force users more powerful than Darth Sidious on that site. And that's probably a conservative estimate.

And yet, Star Wars Fanon is one of the most successful wikis in the company?

Surely they must be regulating their content!

...Nope.

They regulate grammar, article structure, and they maintain good relations among the users. Because of that, yes, they have junk articles. They have articles that you just look at them and wonder what sort of LSD the user took when writing it. But 90% of the wiki is top notch. That wiki has hundreds of users.

Which brings me to my next point.

This site averages 20-30 users depending on a variety of factors, but 20 is close to baseline. Now give everyone just one Uchiha. All of a sudden, 20 Uchiha are on the site. But the administration then has to figure this Uchiha has family members, so let's up that to two Uchiha per member. Wow! All of a sudden there are sixty Uchiha.

The number of Uchiha on this site has little to do with people spamming them.

Naruto Fanon, due to the manga's popularity, has had a very large fanbase. Since 2008 a lot of people have been here and more keep coming. The amount of Uchiha is due to; If you have 100 users since 2008 and everyone of them (just as an example) made 2 Uchiha, that's 200 Uchiha! How're you gonna regulate that? You can't.
 * 1) Popularity of the clan.
 * 2) The large amount of users creating them at one point or another.

It wasn't meant for that.

The application policy is a detriment to this site.

Everyone should be focusing on the upkeep of grammar and appearance. The admins have no right to tell you what you can and cannot write. That's why I'm exercising the clause of Wikia's core rules. No this wikis. Wikia as a company. If a policy becomes detrimental to a site, ignore it.

You're not creating a user friendly environment when users have to create 3, 4, 5 applications a week just to get to write what they want to write. They won't put up with it. There are other fanon sites that allow their stuff and they'll blow this one off.

Its already started.

And you all may think, "Let them!"

Well, I don't. I think its time to get rid of this thing and get back on track. But again; not up to me.

You lot have to do something about this.