User blog comment:Malum Piux/Ähm.... Another Question?!/@comment-958607-20161201222650

Hi there, Malum Piux. I'm BobTheDoctor27, one of the wiki's senior Bureaucrats and foremost members of the maintenance crew.

I would first like to extend a heartfelt apology that your first few days with the wiki have been met with a serious of stub and wikify notifications. As administrators we are creatures of ritual and habitually endeavor to follow policy guidelines so as not maintain the wiki and establish order. As such, it's general courtesy to send the policy guidelines for new users who make unformatted articles in the hopes that they will learn to correct their mistakes from an early point in their editing career. I would like to firmly establish that we're not sending them your way as any kind of dismissive action, nor are we singling your articles out.

We also try to be as lenient as possible towards new users with poorly-formatted articles, such as the Lenu page when the tag was first added. As the page’s history reveals, it’s come a long way and both Chalk33 and BionicleChicken have tried to give you a helping hand. Additionally, we’re always happy to offer individual feedback when asked, though it’s not a requirement that we do this every time we tag a stub/wikify article.

Since the article is wikified in accordance with our requirements, containing a working infobox and all the necessary headings, I can understand some of your sentiments here. Indeed it is clear that you have read some of the Layout Guide as the page has the necessary subheadings. However, the problem seems to lie in the language itself, which switches consistently between prose and fact, as though you set out trying to write a miniature story in the character’s biography. The history section of a character should be as encyclopedic and factual as possible and, as such, it’s not really a place for questions, descriptive language, or quotes. Similarly, it has a few instances of weird and unnecessary capitalization, as well as one reference to scientifically impossible underwater islands. As I understand it, Chicken Bond is currently working away at it to remedy and remaining problems, whilst trying to be as faithful to your original draft as possible, so you might want to consider dropping him a thank you message on his talkpage once he’s done.

Once more, I would like to apologize that your interactions with my fellow administrators haven't given you all the answers that you would have liked and I am hopeful that this message will point you in the right direction for any future articles you make with us. Please don't be afraid to ask us for help on our talk page if you are unsure and need help updating your page before a looming deletion notification. Best of luck in your exams as well, my good man. I look forward to our future correspondence and hope to see more of you in the coming months!