Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140429170840

Howdy. This is, probably, one of the three proposals that I will be proposing today. In the year 2014, we have removed the Death, Shock Ending, OC, US, and recently the Nazi category. We all know what we should do during a removal of this category. We go inside the pages, remove the category, and onto the next one.

What I am proposing today is the "Read Before You Remove" Rule. It means that users must read the article that they are removing the category before they remove the category itself. Because the following may happen, which I am concerned:
 * 1) It may not be good - It can be an old page, a new page, or any page on this site. It may not be good enough for this site.
 * 2) It may have little grammatical errors - It may be qualitative, and such. But it needs to be cleaned up from spelling/grammar errors.
 * 3) UncategorizedPages - As being a rollbacker on this site, I am volunteering myself to clean that page up. I haven't been doing it much, because I was a different person back then. But I have triggered the abusefilter many times while trying to clean this up by adding a category on each story, but I couldn't edit it because the abusefilter was in the way.

This is pretty much one of the things that I have seen, while removing these categories. And there is also a thing that I am proposing to prevent this. And that is to prevent users from editsgaming/edit spamming. I have been a victim of this myself, when removing the People category on this. And probably other users have been/are currently a victim of editsgaming to achive a right/make them feel like they "have done good" to the site. I have done this, because I wanted to achieve the VCROC right. But, looking at my reasons why I want this rule to be established, is because I want to prevent this.

Pretty much during the whole removal of the death category, I was the only one that removed a few categories from pages while actually reading them, and not skimming/editsgaming on these articles. This rule is what I am proposing on what we should do when we are removing a category. Read the articles, then determine it's fate.

 