While I'm against the idea of removing "ranks" or whatever we want to call them, I do think that layout there looks pretty nice and is absolutely worth doing My only concern though is if it'll look okay on various skins. I have no idea about that. Skinning is not something I'm familiar with.
Now that's more reasonable than just killing everything. In that case it should be noted who on the wiki are admins there, who are patrollers, and who are helpful contributors. Since under that format, there's no reason not to. Same goes for other areas like if someone is a news poster or an...
Removing a rank is not something one person can just decide. It's a big decision that can't be made on a whim. None of the people involved in it were consulted and it's damaged our ability to recruit editors.
It was unclear what you meant without the picture. The only difference here is how they look. AS far as how they're used there'd be no change. Again, not liking how it looks is not reason to remove them. If we use a design like that, there'd be little reason to remove any of them. And there'd be...
I can deny it because looking "cluttered" and even the word "clutter" is an opinion you can't impose on other people as a fact. The color argument makes as little sense here as it has every other time it's been used. The solution to colors being exclusive... is to make them MORE exclusive. It's...
Considering it was my idea, no. I don't. And I'm kind of puzzled at the idea of an award being a viable idea because that's worse. Earn it once and then stop. If they're contributing long term, who cares about their motives? Maybe someone who just initially wanted the banner ends up loving the...
Because you are defending the decision and you are defending the label of "clutter" to justify it. If you don't want to be involved, then don't defend it like that.
Frankly you have had nothing to do with the wiki. You don't understand the reasons for it or the need for it. If an award would have worked we'd have done it. But that would HURT us, not help. An award would encourage short bursts of activity that would instantly die the second they got it...
I'm rather upset no one consulted the wiki people before killing these wiki ranks. We didn't make those ranks for no reason. They served a purpose that we needed and now with them gone our ability to recruit new people to help out has been damaged. The banner and color were incentives to get...