User blog:Raider025/Recent Events involving editing

In recent message walls and the conversations surrounding them, a theme I (and assumingly other admins) have noticed is the general concensus that me or another admin will add in work if we are asked on our message walls or in the comments of those articles.

While I, along with the other admins, make every effort to make sure the info presented on this Wiki is accurate to the best of our knowledge, we are still human beings. We have lives, personal matters, work, school, etc. The Wiki is generally not a priority in my life, and I believe there is a similar feeling with other admins.

Recently quite a few times, I, or another admin, have been pestered to add this, or change that, or add all these photos that are posted onto our message walls. For the most part, the people asking this question can add to the articles in question themselves, as most of the wiki's pages are not locked. We don't mind being asked to add information to a locked page, in a polite and respectful manner. What we do mind, is being constantly pestered about adding information because either a.) the person asking is lazy and doesn't want to add it themselves, or b.) the person legitimately doesn't know how to edit. For the former, it's a major annoyance being asked to take time out of our lives just because someone can't be bothered to add in information themselves. For the latter, it is understandable to an extent. There are useful help articles located on the wiki (under the explore->community tab) that can help users get a better grasp on how/what to edit in/out.

Another issue is the tone of which we are asked/demanded to help. Again, we don't mind having polite and respectful discourse with our users. What we do mind is this general tone of entitlement/arrogance that some people have when they tell us we MUST help them. The admins here, including myself, are NOT slaves, nor are we paid staff. We are volunteers who wish to make the wiki the best it can be, and to that end, we volunteer our time to make sure that goal is accomplished.

Going forward, anyone who persistantly pesters/harasses the admins to add something will be given a warning and directed to this post. Further persistance will result in a block.

TL;DR: Don't be a dick when asking for help editing.