ED Improvement Drive

From Encyclopedia Dramatica

It has become apparent that, in full accordance with Sturgeon's Law and Hamtaro's Theory, Encyclopedia Dramatica has become infested with shit, and there has even been discussion about nuking it all.'.

The ED Improvement Drive has been formed in response to the necessity for Encyclopedia Dramatica to be subjected to serious quality control. Now is not the time to create an article on some random asshole (see: Exhibit B) from some random website who is asserted to be gay. Now is not the time to blindly smear pages with memes. Now is not the time to slap a bunch of faggy templates around (see: Exhibit A). Without exception, pages that resemble these will be deleted immediately or migrated to the author's userspace along with "suggestions" to LURK MOAR and to READ ED:101.

Goals

We seek to accomplish, during the following weeks, months and years, the massive reduction of faggotry, the deletion of shit and the profound increase of lulz. The end result is sometimes referred to as ED 2.0.

With that in mind, here are some of our specific goals:

1. The removal or complete rewrite of articles that are entirely or almost entirely unrelated to the internet. These include, but are not limited to, most articles on bands, TV shows, movies and IRL locations.
2. A reduction of shitty attack pages. Encyclopedia Dramatica exists to document internet drama, culture, memes, and people, but the internets are a fucking hueg place, and unless the subject of an article is actually somewhat notable and/or interesting in the communities they are involved with, noone gives a shit.
3. A general improvement in article quality. Too many newfags come to ED with unrealistic expections concerning ED.
   • This includes the belief that we are nothing more than a racist, sexist, and homophobic Uncyclopedia. This is not the case. This site actually contains lulz, Unfunnypedia contains you.
   • Other popular misconceptions is that the site exists primarily to be an "outing" and attack site, to document memes, furfaggotry, Chanology, etc. or to document whatever community the reader is most interested in: 4chan, LiveJournal, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, etc.
   • See Encyclopedia Dramatica, ED Is Not and other ED Policy pages for concise explanations of what ED is and is not.
4. Avoiding the content described in ED:101:Things to avoid.
5. All the goals outlined as part of the YouTube Improvement Drive.

Means

• Using references to ED:101, ED:Things to avoid, ED 2.0 and ED:SG in response to authors that question why their edit was reverted, why their article was deleted, etc.
• Encouraging and often enforcing the general policy that articles are to be started in your userspace first and be moved to the mainspace on Sysop approval.
  • If you want to create an article, create it in User:USERNAME/*ARTICLE NAME* (example: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/User:Bryce/Bob_Johnson). When you think your article has what it takes, find an ED Sysop and ask them if it's mainspace-ready.
• Use of {{cleanup}} to indicate an article that needs cleaning as per ED 2.0 standards and {{cleaning}} to indicate that a page is being actively cleanened up by an experienced EDitor.

ED 1.0 vs. ED 2.0

ED 1.0: Shitty articles were allowed to live and shitty text was removed with a strikeout.

ED 2.0: Shitty articles are deleted or gutted and shitty text is deleted on sight.

ED 1.0: Tolerated the spamming of memes.

ED 2.0: Completely intolerant of excessively spammed memes.

ED 1.0: ED:101:Things to avoid were not avoided.

ED 2.0: ED:Things to avoid are forcefully and retroactively avoided.

ED 1.0: Unnecessary piping, piping without humor value and repetitive piping was common; some articles languished simply because unlike the meme articles, no other article piped to them.

ED 2.0: Piping is used more appropriately, with a focus on piping to new and rarely-linked pages.

See Also

• YouTube Improvement Drive - The major project currently underway
• ED:101
• ED Style Guide (ED:SG)
• ED Policy
• ED:Upgrade 2009

History and laws

• Sturgeon's Law
• Bunker's Law
• Hamtaro's Theory
• Eternal September

ED Improvement Drive is part of a series on THE GRIDS THAT IS KILLING ED	Basic Failures Exhibit A | Exhibit B | Exhibit C | Exhibit D