Forum:Disable the Visual Editor?

So I've been thinking - the visual editor has caused us a lot of problems in the past - what with images being inserted helter-skelter and stuff being oddly removed, etc. What if we just disabled it? I know of a couple other wikis that have done it, just like how we recently got rid of the attribution on the pictures. If nobody objects, I say let's get rid of it! ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:28, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * That would be a good idea, but would it be worth the weeks, maybe months, of users trying to figure out the coding? I'd say we keep it for the time being, but let's watch and see what happens, in my opinion. By the way, make sure you're packed and ready for the Hogwarts Express, which leaves at eleven o'clock today :P james (talk) 04:04, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, other wikis have done it without any major problems. And it really shouldn't take weeks and months to learn coding - mastering the basic stuff like putting stuff in italics or bold or signing your username should really be a matter of days at most, and the more advanced stuff requires coding anyway. And, as for the later - sorry, not for me I'm afraid - check my user categories on my profile. Besides, I live in the U.S. anyway, so even if the previous weren't true... ProfessorTofty (talk) 06:08, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * I only wanted to mention that there are already pages you only can edit in the source mode because of the complex codes in them. Is there a problem? You can look in the preview to look what it looks like.  Harry granger   Talk   contribs 13:03, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * That's quite true, I just wanted to make absolutely sure that we knew what we were doing when we started in with this whole "Disable ALL the Visual Editors!" campaign. I thought it was a good idea, just figured at the time that I'd note a flaw I saw in the plan. Sort of like at the Battle of the Seven Potters, the real Slim Potter (for those who don't know Eminem, he has a song called the Real Slim Shady) found a problem, suggested it, and ProfessorMoody revealed the answer to Potter's querie. Yes, I think it's quite a good idea once you take everything into account. And I live in Canada, but I'm still hoping to see the flying car (what I meant bout the Hogwarts Express was that it'd be quite likely that part of Pottermore would open sometime today, as Seth Cooper rightly said, because most of the events in chapter 5 take place today). Cheers, james (talk) 14:07, September 1, 2012 (UTC)


 * I know that there are some that can't be edited in visual mode, yeah. The issue with visual mode is the problems I've mentioned that we've had in the past - code getting messed up without explanation and pictures being dumped in seemingly random positions in the text. ProfessorTofty (talk) 15:56, September 1, 2012 (UTC)