All posts by SilverPlays97

Last year, Fandom added a new feature to select wikis called "Quick Answers". What this feature does is it creates five questions users may have in an article and creates an answer based on what is in the article. Fandom did this so more of their articles would show up in search results when someone looks up a question related to a wiki they have. Sounds like a great idea, done with the best of intentions, right?

The problem is the questions are generated with an AI program. While half of them are coherent and accurate, the other half don't make sense, are inaccurate, or misrepresent the facts. Anyone with user rights can edit Quick Answers by going to Special:QuickAnswers, however, Fandom keep automatically generating new Quick Answers. They give a 30 day warning before they become published, but we have fallen behind since this has been low on our editing priorities (Movie info, comics info, SXSG info...).

"But Silver, I haven't seen any of these Quick Answers! Where are they?" Quick Answers can not be seen by users who are logged in. This feature is made for visitors, which is likely another reason we have fallen behind on editing them.

Currently, there are 20 reported Quick Answers and about 600 Quick Answers in total, about 200 which are yet to be published. There is a user right called "Quick Answers Editor", which can allow a user to edit Quick Answers. If you want to help clean up Quick Answers, let me or @Luma.dash know and we will give you editing access. No user rights nomination needed. Just let us know and you can start immediately.

Note about Quick Answers: individual Quick Answers can be deleted, but articles that have them are required to have 3 at least. In my experience, however, creating new Quick Answers after deleting them does not work. Rewriting an old Quick Answers as a new one works better.

If this issue is taking too long to resolve, I can request Fandom to stop generating new Quick Answers.

Hello everyone,

Today I am nominating myself for Content Moderator rights. CMs can delete files, edit protected articles, rollback edits, among other abilities. This role is for trusted users with editing skills. I have been an editor since 2013 and have over 25,000 edits on SWZ.

Recently, I stepped down from my admin position here to focus on more IRL things that are occupying my time. However, I still have time to edit here a few times every week and regularly check Discussions and respond to messages on the discord server every day. I have retained my bureaucrat rights, but I am unable to fulfill some of my abilities because I can not edit protected articles (such as policy articles). I want to start a project to clean the list of Unused Files, which is at 290 files when I am writing this, but I do not have the ability to delete files.

I can be trusted with these abilities because of my six years of administrative experience. I also can be trusted because since I have bureaucrat abilities, I have the power to give these to myself, but I haven’t. I am not above the user rights process we have here just because I am an older user or have special abilities. I must go through the nomination process like any other user.

Anyone who has been around here for a few months can vouch for my character. I respect other editors and listen to thoughts and ideas. I have helped this wiki through many issues and was instrumental in finding solutions. I still want to help out, despite my time here being less than in the past. This just means I will use my time more efficiently, becoming even better at quickly putting love and care into my work. I made a promise to help the wiki better and keep growing it, and I still intend to keep it.

To support this nomination, please reply with “Support”. If you do not support it, please reply with “Oppose” and state your reason for doing so. If you are unsure and want to express it, please reply with “Neutral” and state your reason for doing so.

Please keep in mind the rules of the User Rights Nomination process, keep discussion civil, and keep discussion related to the nomination.

Here are some notable edits/logs by me:

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And you can see all my edits here: https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/SilverPlays97

It's time we select our featured article for December! Please reply with a link to the article you want to be featured and/or what article you support being featured. Remember a featured article must fit the following criteria:

1. It must have been written primarily by Sonic Wiki Zone users, and not copied directly from other sites, such as Wikipedia or Mobius Encyclopedia.

2. It must be factually correct, with no false information, and it must have sufficient references to verify its accuracy.

3. It must be at least a few paragraphs in length.

4. It can not have the same topic or article type as the previous month's Featured Article (last month was a video game location, Space Colony ARK)

5. Preferably, the article should coincide with an anniversary, new release, or event for the month it is featured (not required).

6. If an article has already been a Featured Article, it cannot be chosen again.

Once we reach a consensus, that article will be featured.