Talk page clutter

[Sketch]

I notice on well...pretty much every talk page...there's discussion about the subject of the article, rather than the article itself and how to improve it...

I find this to be a waste of space when there is a perfectly good FORUM for such discussion...isn't there a policy on this like on Wikipedia?

 

[Zhen Lin]

There might be, but Talk on Wikipedia can get quite strange too. See: Talk page highlights.

 

[Sketch]

While that may be humorous...that's not really what I mean.

For example. I just removed forum-like discussion from the Gold and Silver remake article. The user wished to discuss theories...that's what the forums are for.

 

[Zhen Lin]

Yes, that's definitely forum discussion.

 

[Sketch]

Not only that, now the user is going against me saying that it's discussing things that can be put in the article. To which I said bull shit. It's all speculation and 'what I want' or 'what I think would be cool'. I ended up protecting the article until further notice...

Something needs done about this...I mean, there is a forum here for these kind of discussions.

The only thing is...what can you do about this? With as many articles as it has already...it would be impossible to clean them all up.

 

[Lilac Hill]

As I have said before, Talk pages are edited more than Userpages. I'm not just talking about User talk pages.

 

[Gligar13]

i checked Recent Changes and a portion was just talk pages being edited.

 

[FabuVinny]

On the one hand, I am against doing things just because Wikipedia does it. This is one area that they are strict on, which is perfectly understandable, but a little chatter isn't terrible and in some cases can still be of use. If someone asks for information on the subject then it is usually because we don't have that information in the encyclopedia.

However, it does gets out of hand at times, particularly with regards to recent news. We learn of something exciting like a team change in the anime and people feel compelled to talk about it wherever they can. The worst offender I've seen was probably Ash's Gligar in the days after the surprise capture. New episode articles also consistently fall into this territory. The speculation and general reactions really should stay in the forums.

 

[White Len]

Such users are BIg Johnno and Billy(something). Predictions are totally out of the subject. So STOP POSTING YOUR FRICKING PREDICTIONS INTO THE FRICKIN ARTICLES. >.<

 

[Lilac Hill]

They haven't bothered with it for a while actually.

 

[FabuVinny]

Talk:Main Page has had a surge in irrelevant discussions lately. I did put a link to this forum there a while back but it's not as if anyone actually reads above the contents.