Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140611010938

Yeah. First proposal for an add-on and a removal to a certain rule on this site, but I think that it's necessary. So, I will propose the add-on first, then the removal of a certain rule.

Add-On
I propose that a user who blanks their article should not get blocked from the site, but rather get a warning on their talk page, and the article deleted due to the suspicion that the author wants it to be deleted (or the recent revision of their edit being undid/rollbacked, then a warning from an administrator/VCROC). Because there may be some users that do not know how to delete a page, and have seen a page being deleted, so blanking is the only resolution that can probably be seen as a solution to deleting their story, or that the user's are afraid of coming to an administrator to request that their article should be deleted.

This part of the rule is actually on Spinpasta's Vandalism Policies. The only situation that I can think of that will put administrators/VCROC members in a pickle are users that have gotten the maximum name change allowed on their original account, and created a new account, then blanked their article. A suggestion for this problem is that users, who have written articles and gotten recent name changes, put/change the by-user template on their articles, so that admins know who wrote it or not. It wouldn't be mandatory, but a mere suggestion so that the author wouldn't get blocked from the site for 2 weeks.

Remove
I propose that we get rid of users not allowing to blank their own talk page/removing a certain message from the user's talk page/administrators not having the privilege to delete their talk-page. As with various points said on the Trollpasta thread about users not allowing to post the auto-play template on their profile (irrelevant to this, but has a similar topic to my reasoning), it's their talk page. They have the privilege to do whatever that they want on their talk page, as long as it doesn't break any rules on this wiki, or break the Terms of Use.

Any user who doesn't have deletion rights should have the privilege to clean out their talk page, and not archive it. Administrators/VCROC's can look through the history of the user's talk, to see if a user has been warned about creating new categories, if they have created spam pages, ect.

Administrators should have the privilege to delete their own talk page, unless if they have done stuff in the past before earning their adminship.

So, that's pretty much it.

 