Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-4975464-20140420000713


 * Remember that concept of recycling from ages ago? Well, with the desire of content cleanup rising, I think that this concept will aid in this. How many times have you clicked the "Random page" button and saw an article that made your eyes fall out? Well, I'm sure recycling can help. The benefits of recycling are increased overall content quality, increase in user activity, decrease in low-quality content (LQCs), and a possible user-based synergistic increase.


 * Recycling can be beneficial to cleanup because eventually, the overall wiki content quality will be increased. With a strong user community, this wiki can become a place that is full of great content and layout beauty, if you will. With approximately 6000 articles, a vast majority, nearly 64 percent, are under seven or eight thousand bytes. In addition, a good 14 percent of the content is of considerable "low-quality", and can be fixed by using the concept of recycling and applying it to all content.


 * User activity can be improved greatly with the use of recycling. This process can provoke a user to feel a certain movement, and which much hope, users will take interest and continue editing, but more frequently.


 * As we all may be aware, and as stated before, the amount of articles are greatly composed of "low-quality content", or LQCs. With the application of recycling, the amount of LQCs will decrease, hopefully exponentially. If enough users recycle articles, then there is a possibility that the LQCs can decrease as the amount of recycling increases.


 * New users come to the SpongeBob Fanon Wiki ever other week, on an average of about twelve days randomly every month. All of them have different styles of content creation. Some create stubs, while others create articles of great quality. All types of users can recycle however, and all types of recycling can result in increased article and content quality.


 * In conclusion, recycling can increase many lacking factors of content on the wiki. The great thing is it's simple, it's fairly quick, and everyone can do it. I hope we can all agree that the wiki can benefit from the practice and concept of recycling.


 * Illusionist recycling


 * The deleting of a renamed article, the re-creation of the article and adding of new content


 * Standard/basic recycling


 * The renaming of an article and the replacing of the article's content with improved quality and layout


 * Additive recycling


 * Instead of the deleting or renaming of an article, the user can add to the content already in the low-quality article, improving the article's content with proper layout and templates; optional renaming  