Board Thread:Suggestion Box/@comment-3503487-20140214022850

This is a suggestion to change our procedure for claiming locations from being just an approval by an admin/rollback to having a 3 day period for all users on the wiki to comment on the location. This does not affect street pages, which can still be directly approved.

My proposal:
 * During a 3 day period after the location form is made, at least 3 users besides the original creator must comment. If we don't get enough responses within 3 days, it'll be left open for a week, and after that it'll be considered not approved.
 * At least 2/3 of users must agree to the idea or come to a consensus about any changes that might be made to the location in order for it to be approved. If there's less than 2/3 in favor after 3 days, then the form would also be considered not approved unless the users change it so that people agree to approve it.
 * Once it is approved, an admin/rollback can leave the claim template just as we've done before.

Why I suggest this is that we already have 4 cities (5 if we include Riverview which isn't being used at the moment) on the wiki with different characteristics, and it's difficult to properly develop another city without spreading our characters out too much. There's lots of locations, so this would allow people to put more effort into making any new locations and prevent places from being unused. The time period also allows the person to think twice about whether or not they really want to make it since people often forget about something they made cuz they didn't think much into it.

Also, some people created a city/location in mind with a specific quality in mind, and another user may make a location within it that doesn't fit it. For example, Blackwood Mountain is known as a small mountain town that's mostly residential with few businesses, and if another user made a school for it, that wouldn't really fit, and they might not know unless other users bring it up.

Sorry this is so long. Here, have a bad joke as a congrats on getting so far. How did the hipster burn his tongue? He drank his coffee before it was cool.

Anyways, please comment on whether you agree/disagree or have any other comments to make on this. The whole 2/3 vote sort of thing is also just a suggestion so if you have a better suggestion please say so. 