Talk:List of characters in Bully

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[edit] Nothing more can be done

Resolved. Indeed, nothing more can be done, and although fanfiction does not belong to Wikia, we'll need an administrator's opinion which we lack.

I think we've done everything within our scope to improve this page, but this article is still rated Start-class. Nothing more can be done to improve this page, though if you have any ideas, pleae list them. I'm feeling ever so pessimistic.Paul 1953 (talk) 05:02, 7 June 2008 (UTC)

To get the rating improved you have to submit for a peer review, and I'm not really bothered to do that. Lots of deletionists are good at twisting wikipedia rules to their advantage, and lots of deletionists like to claim that lists are unencyclopedic (even though it's pretty clearly stated that they are acceptable). And I'm happy to keep this one out of the way of the rampaging deletionists. At any rate, I don't think this article could go higher than B-class, and I think there aren't enough "real world relevance" references in it to get a B-class. Actually, there's something I've seen a few times that goes "This article is a list and doesn't need a rating" that might be more appropriate for this one. McJeff (talk) 20:03, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
To me, lists are encyclopedic, if they state facts. Anyways since this article went through a major cleanup a few months back, not much can be done with it since then, apart from reverting crap edits or deleting vandalism and keeping it clean and tidy. Let me ask a question, just for clarifcations sake, do any of you guys miss the article in the way it was? Dan the Man1983 (talk) 06:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
If you ask me, it would be a no. Because Bully Wikia is so much better e.g every single character gets their own page rather than the old page, where we listed them, and had to make references.Paul 1953 (talk) 12:37, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
Thats cool Paul. We are expanding over there very well I think, each character has a description, their role in the game, characteristics, and quotes stated. Same goes for the cliques too. I preferred the old page here, but this one is better for wikipedia standards. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 12:44, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
I liked the old/long version of this page better too, but if they say it was getting unencyclopedic... well, the problem with "unencyclopedic" is that anyone who doesn't like it can call something unencyclopedic and get an article put through the AfD wringer. Anyway, this version of the page is pretty concise and more useful than the huge version to someone who doesn't care that much about Bully, and this page links to the Wikia. McJeff (talk) 15:03, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
You know, I think we should get an approval for a bot that could revert vandalism. That way, we won't need to spend time chasing after vandals. But before starting a discussion, I'll need everyone's opinions, so that we won't waste megabytes, kilobytes, whatever.Paul 1953 (talk) 08:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Bots do tend to make mistakes, and have reverted good edits on this page before. I remember McJeff having one of his edits reverted due to a mistake, he was also warned about it too. I think we can all keep an eye on this article while we go about our business editing others. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 10:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I've personally never encountered bots making mistakes, but it could be true.Paul 1953 (talk) 02:13, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Paul, is there any need for fanfiction characters of this game to be listed at Wikia? Dan the Man1983 (talk) 05:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
In what context is your query? Paul 1953 (talk) 08:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
They don't belong there. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 18:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Well, I put it there for those fly-by editors and vandalisers so they wouldn't add fanfiction to the cliques. Paul 1953 (talk) 04:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Fair enough. But they still do not belong there, Just my opinion though. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 00:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
We should probably talk about the Bully wikia over on it, rather than here. As far as fanfiction characters go, I don't think they should be there, but since none of us are admins, and the current administrator over there has abandoned it, there's no way to do any cleanups, so might as well leave it. McJeff (talk) 01:13, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Yeah we shouldn't really be discussing it here since it's against wikipedia rules to go off topic on a talkpage discussion. I will however start a topic over there and you guys can give your opinions on the matter and other matters too. Dan the Man1983 (talk) 10:20, 12 June 2008 (UTC)