Thread:RR3 Michael P/@comment-1735079-20160803102958/@comment-1735079-20160803121803

Michael

I'm only trying to improve the quality of this Wikia. The rules state: Nothing in the rules indicates that a rename is a design change; this is counterintuitive and not in line with industry standards of what constitutes "design" so it's unreasonable to expect users to infer that this action constitutes a design change. If you need to limit renames to admin users, the functionality should not be enabled for non-admins. Sorry to be fractious but I don't acknowledge this as a valid warning, it is not in line with published community rules. Feel free to sanction me if that's what you want to do. Nothing in the community rules reflects the counterintuitive policy that FM's errors become authoritative in the face of correct, more reliable sources of information. If you wish to implement and enforce this questionable policy that of course is your prerogative as admins however it should be reflected in the community guidelines. In that case the policy must be fairly and consistenly applied and information not available in-game, such as other vehicle and track information, must be removed. As an example, where in-game is the Gerhard Berger quote regarding Brands Hatch? If in-game information is considered the only definitive source, how is this information justified on the Brands Hatch page?
 * Articles that are misspelled should be renamed instead.

You'll notice that much in-game content is not factually correct, and even not consistent in-game. It's not a good policy to treat it as authoritative when factually authoritative sources exist. I refer you to my previous question - when FM make spelling and grammatic mistakes do we then take that as the new definition of English usage and ignore global conventions?