Thread:Withersoul 235/@comment-188432-20180505005912

The reason that I denied your MediaWiki:Common.js a few hours ago was because of the redirecting code that forced people away from /skin.css and onto /wikia.css. As a Wikipedian from way back, I recoiled from this initially, because I thought it needlessly denied people the chance to use /skin.css and /skin.js if they wanted to. And then I thought that another problem was that it just didn't understand what /skin was supposed to do. In the last decade, on Wikipedia, /skin meant that your changes would be applied to whatever skin you were on. In other words, it was the precursor to /common.css and /common.js. So I didn't like that it was redirecting to the wrong thing — even though I know it's exactly the hack they've been using on Wikipedia for years.

And then I did some reading and discovered that, even on Wikipedia, as of 24 May 2015, /skin.js and /skin.css only existed 61 times on EN Wikipedia. That's nothing when compared to the million-plus user base. And this wiki started only in 2013, long after the introduction of /common.css and /common.js. So the chances are that next-to-no-one is using it here, and probably no one will remember /skin going forward.

But, there being no security or ToU bar to approving the code, I'll go back and approve Common.js as you submitted it.

Still, I would like you to think about this for a moment. If almost no one is in the position to use this code, is there a point to having it around? Is it worth the extra bit of code bloat to satisfy a condition that doesn't really exist on the wiki? Does the presence of code on Wikipedia necessarily mean that it needs to be on FANDOM?

Things to ponder on a weekend ... 