User blog:Mousetalon/NEW USERS READ THIS

Hello everyone, it's Mousetalon. For those of you who don't know me, I am an administrator on this site. I have been a part of the administrative team since late October and have been a member of this Wiki since last July.

When I first joined the Wiki, I took a long time before creating a character. I watched roleplays, looked around pages, read the policies, and asked questions before creating a character page. I didn't want to make a mistake and leave a bad first impression because let's face it- first impressions are VERY important.

Lately, a lot of our new users have gone right ahead and created character pages without reading our policies and getting sorted. As the one who has to leave comments on all of the pages, it gets frustrating and does NOT leave a nice first impression. I don't know what else we can do, I recently put in bold an announcement on the front page telling you all to read a blog that explains what's going on!

I cannot make myself any clearer- you all MUST read our policies and follow procedure before going and creating a character page with three words describing a character's personality. We try our very hardest to run a quality Wiki here, and to do that we need organization and compliance from you guys!

I'm sorry if I sound a bit harsh, but it's come to the point where every time I log on, I see another new page that does not comply with policy. Sure, it's helping bring my edit count up but honestly guys, I can only take so much before I lose it and go on a deleting rampage.

While I'm typing I also must thank Football for helping me sort out the complying pages from the non-complying ones.

I'll leave you with three things you MUST do, new users. Thank you all for enduring my little rant, and I hope you all enjoy yourselves here! M o  u  s  e  Owl me! :) 19:30, March 17, 2012 (UTC)
 * 1) READ OUR POLICIES.
 * 2) HAVE AN ACCOUNT BEFORE CREATING A CHARACTER
 * 3) This last thing is more of a personal preference, but please use proper grammar here. That includes complete sentences and proper word usage. It looks better.