On the general topic, I do not believe there needs to be some sort of blanket exception for these types of old articles because they exist in such varying states of completion that it's impossible to have a one-size-fits-all solution. Andrew and Wes have handled the issue well.
Moving to the specific topic:
TLDR; I'd like to remove the WIP status from the
Mecha-Druidism and
Freespacer Terminology articles, but submitting them for approval seems ultra dumb, seeing as I don't want to alter them one iota....
It's not my work!
I have edited the
Terminology article to be approvable. It took two backlinks, fixing nesting/formatting (including simple sentences to make the subject headers have required prose), 5 minutes of forum research, and adding an OOC section. Since I was once the Freespacer FM myself, it was an easy and comfortable task. That article was only "wip" at all because the Freespacer community expected people to add to it infinitely. Feel free to submit it for approval if you have nothing to add.
Part of doing the above was referencing the
Freespacer OOC Discussion, which within it contains the merged
Freespacer Wiki Article Update Thread. More than just providing attribution information that I used above, that thread provides a good reminder that the Freespacers were always a collaborative effort.
@Strangelove (and
@Della and
@Angelic_Crux)
wanted people to contribute to these articles. Finish them. Add to them. The faction's original articles have already been changed and moved to "Freespacer (Old Version)," so it's not as if making these old articles complete is some kind of infringement on someone else's creative work.
For
Mecha-Druidism, that article only needs a few words to describe Deoradh thought on the Afterlife and whatever "Alchemy of the Heavens" might be. But if quoting
βlolβ β nome The Art of Never Again, Chapter 999: wtf as a placeholder for those sections is any indication, it seems like the Freespacers don't think much about those concepts at all.