User blog comment:RedPandaPotter/Important News/@comment-1829516-20131124221101

Before any new users begin to flip out, Story Stops are extremely important. We have thousands, let me repeat, thousands of unused, orphaned stories on here. It sucks to be on Story Stops, but we haven't had one in over a year and we are nearing 6,000 articles. In the Admin Panel, I can look at articles that haven't been edited in months, some haven't been edited in years. Half of these 'orphaned' articles have just a few sentences, a few are blank.

During a Story Stop, the admins of the wikia are deleting a lot of these articles. It's to clean up and help the wikia run more efficiently. No, we aren't going to be able to go through every article that's orphaned and unused, but the point is getting most of them deleted.

So what can you do during a Story Stop? You can edit and finish Fanfictions you're currently working on and put articles up for adoption. If you don't think you'll ever finish your story, and you don't really want it, then put it up for adoption! Adopting other user's stories is an easy way to keep away from creating new articles during the Story Stop.

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