Talk:Nintendo Wiki:List of Badges

Ongoing Badges & Users Contributions
Some of these methods for earning badges, like Achievement Naming Contest for example, should remain OPEN for like a year (or even indefinitely).

With that example, All that was given was 10 days before it was closed & badges were given out. Yet two users commented a month later, and still received them after it was closed? Not complaining over that, as I love their ideas & they deserve them. But why close it at all?

In other examples:
 * The Chrono badge is well earned by that contributor, so it's fine there's only one given there. Although everyone I've met loves Chrono trigger, so I say make a 2nd badge for it too!
 * The MASB4C Contest Badge was given out, although the Wikia battle to discuss the characters based on what the users want wasn't finished. I believe that can be restarted even though Nintendo just added the character(s). This also makes an active discussion, although it helps to share a link it in areas outside of the Wikia to bring in more users to get more partcipation. (Maybe make a "Sharing X links" badge?)
 * Punchbag Badge - No information was given on how to earn this

I'm just thinking everyone who makes a honest worthy contribution should have a chance to earn a number of badges on the Wiki, let alone their first badge.

Some other ideas is to have a 2nd row for Badges & of course the Nintendo Wikia would need more badges in the first place. I could care less about them personally, although like Achievements, I believe they're another way to establish communication between users, Wikia activity, and by benefit - participation & willingness to keep coming back.

Anyway, since I've said my share in this post, I'd also like time to point out it's been a year & I haven't seen any Community Messages yet either which means that all Admin are fine with things the way they are or just lack time or teamwork to come up with them? I understand many things especially these three things: 1) People do & willl get busy 2) Communities will always need Admins, 3) I agree that non-virtual life comes first.

But I also understand Admin have responsibilities too, and at least three pillars of this I believe are:

1) Accepting & addressing criticism while handling issues or concerns with professionalism

2) Encouraging users to contribute through communication: Events, Blogs, User Talk, Chat Room times, etc

3) Finding ways to bring more awareness to the Nintendo Wikia to do so. IE: Links, Contests, Banners people can share, post, or embed outside of the Wikia to bring friends from other areas in!

This is just a game Wikia about a company that makes games, so in itself, contributing is a game. But let's improve our gameplay whenever possible shall we?

Shoot, Nintendo makes Pokemon and tell me: How easy is it to beat Brock to gain your 1st badge? Jeydo (talk) 14:54, October 2, 2015 (UTC)