User blog:DanzxvFan8275/Proposal 2: Archival of Request Pages

Welcome to Part 3 of "we are better than this." Time for another proposal.

As pretty much all of you know, there are two ways to request for an office on this wiki. Through blog pages, and through request pages. Most users just use the former now, as it's much easier to use and easier to find. This is a proposal to archive the request pages and make it so blog posts are the only way a user could request.

One, request pages are pretty much abandoned. They've mostly just been used last year, and it's been used maybe once or twice this year. Every other request has been in the blog namespace, showing that this is preferred platform and more active in requests than the pages. Two, there's only one shortcut to it - it being linked on the policy. Blog pages are shortcutted on the main page, in the wiki navigation, in the wiki activity, and on several templates, making it easier to go to. Third, most activity on this wiki seems to be on blog articles in comments, showing that there is and would be more activity there. Fourth, and lastly, which ties into pretty much all of the other reasons - there are usually more votes on blog requests than ones in the request pages.

If this passes, the following section in the policy will also be changed, as well as the archiving itself:

Application Process
 * 1) Users must request via valid format s : This means requests must be done through the request pages or through blog posts.

-say no to cigarettes 15:59, December 23, 2017 (UTC)