Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-4251620-20130726002651/@comment-20644-20130726004015

In addition to being a Wikia Community Manager, I'm also an admin and bureaucrat on Star Wars Fanon. Though this wiki is more encyclopedic than SWFanon is, what you just described is very similar to my own experience on SWFanon. The vast majority of pages on SWFanon, totaling over 30,000, aren't that great. They could all use a rewrite. That's something that used to freak me, and other SWFanon users, out because we thought having those pages there looking bad made our own pages look bad. We would try to organize initiatives around cleaning things up, including a Mass Deletion Drive, but none of those were really effective. We were ultimately just stroking our own egos by trying to make other people's pages look more like ours.

So while MicroWiki and SWFanon are different in that this wiki is an encyclopedia, they share something important: a sense of page ownership. For example, if you go to Wookieepedia, no one feels like they own the page Luke Skywalker. No one on the wiki created it. However, I feel like own my character pages on SWFanon, just as I'm sure you feel a sense of ownership over the page Noble Republic of Lurk.

I say that to make this point: live and let live. Don't worry about other people's pages. If you can clean them up, great. If not, does it really matter? No, not really. Your micronation will not be judged on the quality of another person's page. If someone does judge yours based on someone else's, then that person is an idiot. Don't pay any attention to them. I don't think there's anything wrong with people caring more about their pages than other people's. That's to be expected on a wiki where the point is to post information about something users themselves created.

Write your pages the way you want to, and let people write their own pages the way they want to. Are they all going to be good? No. Will people enjoy the wiki more? Absolutely. So don't freak yourselves out. On Star Wars Fanon, we killed our community by obsessing over quality control. I'm sure you see the parallels to MicroWiki there.