Thread:Unrulyruby100/@comment-27609285-20141101210621/@comment-16533050-20141102025603

It's not so much that the change is problematic, its more of a matter of abiding by a wiki's set of standards.

Whenever I go to a wikia/wiki I'm new to, I always check out their Regulations, Rules of Conduct, Writing Tense, and Manual of Style; basically abiding by what seems to be their chosen set of standards.

For instance, I really like the way our pages are presented here, but some wikis have trivia AFTER their gallery, which irks me to no end. We also have our galleries set-up to be centralized where most others have it set to the left, and we don't have links in any of the pic descriptions. Again, I prefer our way.

However, I don't just jump onto a site and start making major changes without 1) asking if its okay... and 2) waiting until I get feedback for the admins, or the site's most active members. For instance on the German version of the Dishonored wiki, the members prefer to have the titles of Missions Italicized. We don't do that here, yet I abide by the decisions of the members of the German site when I edit there.

Just because YOU make like something doesn't necessarily mean that the people that have worked, set-up, run, and maintained the site for years like it that way. Our site has carefully detailed rules and a Manual of Style.

Making unwarranted changes can seem impolite at best. That may not have been your intention, but it can come across quite easily as such.