With the recent reopening of this forum to requests, I've been seeing a lot of posts just saying "I support" and I thought I'd pop in and let you know just how helpful they are to determining whether or not a request would have enough potential to be successful as a wiki.

Simply put, they don't help at all and are really just getting in the way. When we evaluate wiki requests, we look for multiple things, such as popularity of the series, solid arguments for or against the creation of a wiki for that series, and background on the series. To prove my point, I'd like to show you the Disgaea request which caught my eye rather quickly. Take a look over tallteen86's and FrozenAtari's posts that gave me enough information to want to play the games myself even though I'd never heard of them before until seeing this thread. That's the type of posts we'd like to see in here. Now let's compare that to the recent Kirby request. Only one person really gives any decent information about the series and it really doesn't help your case any if you're the only person pushing for a wiki to be created for a series, not to mention the fact that it's something that, in its current state, would be easily overlooked by the wiki admin team because of the lack of decent information.

I've seen this before, and I must say: I think me and Dragon pulled a Kirby ._. All we really did was list everything about them, not really adding any information about why you should play them, as you said.

I believe they can be deleted, but Redemption is strongly against deleting history, which wikis can be easily considered.

Actually, after neoseeking "Barbie", there are quite a few profiles, and I used to own one of the games, so I could help do the page for that one. There just needs to be enough interest and work done to warrant a wiki and Avalith's dream will come true.

Are you suggesting something similar to dummy portals, but maybe dummy wikis, Agrias, or just regular wikis? I liked the dummy portals, but unfortunately since wikis are supposed to be sorta community projects, having them at a dummy stage where they aren't very well-known wouldn't help it get much attention.

Krunal lies. My dream wikis are already created.

Yeah I see what you mean Avalith, I'm now also quite interested in the Disgaea series.

I'd just like to remind people after seeing a couple of recent "I support". Please only state your support for a wiki if you plan on contributing to it. Just because a series may have a few games to it while you have no intention on contributing to the wiki does not warrant an "I support".