Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-5075791-20150303212703/@comment-5075791-20150304231528

Slug-Drones wrote: Why is a 'User List' needed? There is already a page that lists the administrators and their availability and a forum for questions about editing. New users are also encouraged to ask questions in an automated message, which links to an active administrator. Seeing the example of users you mentioned in this thread, you are giving the job of an administrator to non-admins.

However, I am not against this idea entirely. I have seen newer users say that they can't find anything to edit, even though they are willing to contribute. The 'Editing Directory' can help.

Lastly, there is a page that briefly guides users the preferred way of editing articles on this wiki. If you think this 'Editing' page is needed, you might want to merge the two together. The two pages seem closely related. Let me point out the admin page does not show the times admins are online. The Q&A forum includes everything related to sonic and the wiki, except technical problems. The list is editing-specific and anyone can be on it, including admins. We have a high amount of editors who are not admins are constantly editing the main-space. This list would give those users an outlet for others to find them. If you want, I can add an open statement saying 'The first users to go to for problems related to the wiki are our administrators. Otherwise, the following users...'

I get what you are saying about those two pages being very related. I don't know if Editing page should belong there or the style page to be moved here. Either way might work.

Pandoo wrote:

Secondly, titling users who are skillful in this and that is certainly not a fact, and is just claiming that "oh, i know how to edit these pages better than anyone else" under no bases. It's a volunteer list. You list your skill based off what you think you are best at. There is no limit to what categories people can label themselves, heck users could just label themselves as 'General' If they do not want to limit themselves.