User blog:NotAlwaysPerfect/Shops & Their Activity

Howdy! It's Kayle, signing in here. I've been considering making this blog for a while now and since I've finally seemed to find the time to do it, I figured that it would be a good idea to make it now. As y'all may or may not know, Sorting & Stores doesn't approve new shops if there's already too many of that shop type on the wiki, especially if they're unused. An example of which is that we don't need another cafe, for we have three or four now. It's said that shops should be deleted if they're not used enough, but to my knowledge that hasn't really been done (at least at a larger level in the past couple years, but it probably did happen in the past). So, here's what I've been thinking, because I've noticed there's a few underused shops drifting around the wiki. Disclaimer: I'm all for new and interesting ideas for shops that could spice up the wiki a bit. However, my idea is that we get rid of the ones that we're not using, so that there's almost more of an opportunity to open up more versus having a large group of them that don't need to be there. Perhaps, they were great ideas at the time (I completely believe that any users who made them had good intentions and thoughts, but now some of them have ran out of a purpose in my opinion). And here's how I've been wanting to go about this. Whether you're interested in it or not, I'd appreciate a comment on how you stand on the subject because then I'm getting some feedback. Then, if you do believe we should get rid of (or retire, since that sounds softer) some of the shops or restaurants that we have around the wiki, then comment them down below please and thank you. I'll probably then add some polls into this blog after a while or I'll start another blog for all the polls to see if the majority of people want certain shops to stay or go. That might sound a bit confusing, because I've had a difficult time explaining that last part, but I think we'll figure it out once I get to that point. It'll probably make more sense to the both of us when we do that. (Oh, boy.) If you have any thoughts on this, whether in agreement or disagreement, I would love to hear from you down below in that lovely little comment section. I'm going to suggest not shying away from suggesting places, since I don't think this should be taken as an attack by any users on any other users. However, shops such as the Leaky Cauldron or Quality Quidditch Supplies shouldn't necessarily count since they're actual places in the universe and they're used normally quite a bit during the in-character summers depending on the summer (especially with the latter). Also, check out the Portkey for what I believe is all of the shops we have here. Anyways, we'll just see where this goes and hopefully I'll be following back up with another blog summarizing it all or getting it in order! Thanks for reading and commenting and all that. It's much appreciated. <3 And it's Kayle, over and out.

 - a george a day keeps the doctor away. 23:04, January 27, 2017 (UTC)