Thread:Velocity Chicken/@comment-5956954-20160415075005

The welcome message is decent enough. It thanks you for your edits and asks new users to come to them for help if needed. However, from history and my eyes, it doesn't seem to be preventing most of the problems that are happening across the wikia.

Take three users for example:

1: Warren3danger: They were uploading Elu Tran's extended soundtrack videos to the gallery and adding descriptions to it. Uploading videos are against the rules here because there is a template that does the job itself, and since this user did not know about this template, they broke a rule by accident. Assuming good faith, they were only trying to help.

2: Luke W. Lake: this thread. I will admit. This wikia is already nearly complete, but every contribution helps. I botched here because I did not link the Manual of Style or the Community Portal to them. It would've simplified the learning process for the new user.

3: CeejayTheCrazyDJ: edit. As you can see, they didn't know about the manual of style, so the edit was undone. Them seeing it as a typo is strange, but what can ya do? Still the same common mistake.

Because of these examples, I want to suggest adding a link to the Policy page like the wikia bot does to their profile. Why the message board when it does it to the profile already? because it doesn't make a notification, so CeejayTheCrazyDJ didn't seem to notice it.

Optionally, I suggest adding a link to the admin report thread as well so new users know where to take most of their problems whether it will be vandalism or anything they can't do.

Thanks for considering this. I really hope it helps <:) 