User blog comment:JayeMalik'/Old, New, Underused, Overused RP Locations/@comment-1613839-20180523124502

So I have a few issues with the city. I think it's an interesting idea but it would be really difficult to put into realistic practice. I'll list out my thoughts/issues but if they can be addressed I'm not against it...just trying to help list out what's needed.

I honestly don't like the idea of a wizarding city since I think it stretches too far from Canon. I feel like most of the wizarding world intentionally chooses to live in muggle areas, or in small communities so as not to draw attention of the muggles. The more people you start getting together the harder it is to hide from muggles. In addition I'm sure Hogsmeade and Godric's Hollow and any other small community has to cast protective charms on the place to keep it from being discovered and the bigger that gets the more charms are needed making it harder to maintain.

All that being said about the logistics of it I do think it might be kind of a cool feel to have everything together in one city but that raises the problem of where. The majority of businesses are in London and Diagon Alley. The Ministry and most people's jobs are also there. Seems the logical choice...except now we want to include students also which makes Hogsmeade the logical choice...but people will still have to travel between the two for work and home which makes it less like one big city.

My final issue is with the students being a part of this. The idea of Hogwarts is that it's like a boarding school where students go all year away from their parents so they're in an environment where they're always at school and learning. They have to ride a train for hours to get there which (I think) intentionally lets them separate it from their homes and families. This lets students bond with teachers and other students more closely than if they went home every day. With a wizarding city close enough for students to visit there's no reason for students to stay at Hogwarts or be part of the culture. Right now their families can visit during Hogsmeade weekends and over the holidays. I feel like Hogwarts also doesn't get enough RPing (classes stop before the holidays every year) and student RPs generally get forgotten about or not finished. If people want to RP their students and we had an issue of too many RPs going on at Hogwarts and needed some extra places to RP students I maybe could see it but if people won't RP their students at Hogwarts why would we open up more places for them not to RP them?

That brings me to the first question in the blog about old locations and deleting them. I think we definitely have some extra places we don't need...and we either need to draw attention to them so they're used more or delete them. Some need to be given special consideration like the locations in other countries and the leadership needs to decide if we're only RPing in England or elsewhere. If only England then yeah let's get rid of all the RP locations in other countries since we as a wiki have decided we won't be using them. However, if there's plans to expand (which seems to be the case to me with the exchange program and now the royals?) then maybe we do need RP locations in other countries.

So talking about unneeded/unused locations also brings up why we have these places. Mostly there were used for an event or expansion and then forgotten about or people created them since they needed a specific location for a RP then nobody else used it after that. I'll admit to creating or owning a good number of the pages listed above over the years some as exotic RP locations for extravagant dates or the like but if nobody's using them then year we don't need them. Do we need some sort of policy for creating RP locations? I have no issues with people creating offices or homes or the like...but for actual locations should they be approved by someone so we don't continue to have this issue? I know we have that (or had that) for shops (so we didn't have 5 shops selling the same thing) so do we need a general RP location request that has to be approved so we don't have a bunch of unused pages.

My only other thought is instead maybe we get the pages used more. Something like the Marauder's Map for RP locations or the random RP location generator might make people aware of interesting places to RP and then they might get used more.

Anyway, just my thoughts. If we do delete a bunch of locations let me know since I can probably think of a dozen more than what you listed above that could also go. :)