User blog comment:RedPandaPotter/Story Stop: Over! And Some News, Maybe, Too/@comment-1829516-20131204125623

I just noticed the new fluid layout (as you can see the huge gap in the background...), we'll just to update the layout and we'll be good to go :3

Another thing I noticed is that when users weren't allowed to create articles, they began to upload a lot of pictures. Keep in mind we only allow 8 pictures per month to be uploaded on the wikia. If you are shown to be violating this, then we'll have no other choice but to give you a 3 day ban and remove the extra pictures you uploaded. I'm not going to count off for November, since a lot of you guys were new, but I'll trust you guys to read the rules from now on.

Now, just because the Story Stop is officially over, this does NOT mean you can create billions of articles you won't edit. I hate when people make filler articles so nobody steals the name they want. This is spam, and will be deleted when seen.

Also, do you know why we had to delete nearly 1,000 articles? Cause they were mainly stubs. Please do not leave stories unfinished within the first two chapters. It counts as spam and the stories are nearly worthless, since they're not far along in plot. You can put fanfictions on hold, but don't orphan your stories guys!

It took hours to go through the Orphaned Pages list (yes there is an actual orphan pages list in the Admin Dashboard). We had to go from A-T within ten days (Not A-Z since the list only let's 1000 articles up at a time, and takes 24 hours to update), check the history to see if it was orphaned, see if it was a fanfiction, see if it was a stub, put the deletion template/tag on it, then go through and delete them. It takes a long time to do that, even longer since we had thousands of articles.

In the beginning, we had 5,932 articles. At the end of the story stop we had 4,953 articles. This means 979 articles were deleted at that time. With Arti absent, only Red and I were here to do that.

Thanks for being patient with us, we would've deleted up to a thousand, but school times intervened with Story Stop times. I must say this was probably the must successful Story Stop we've had.