User blog:Love Robin/The problem with me

Anything which belongs in this wikia should be able to withstand being challenged.

I challenge Dexter Morgan and Punisher because Rule 6.1 says "not to add a character to this wiki unless he or she is established as a villain in their setting". As, and to, a writer "setting" means "literary or narrative", which means it is set(see there the root word from 'setting'?) by the writer(s) and or creative team. Which means it is told to us what a setting is. Often as a summary encapsulating what the narrative is about. It is not up to readers and viewers to decide what a setting is.

As a writer, *I* am the one to decide the setting(s) of a story. It is not the job of those reading my work to decide it is different.

With Dex and Punisher, they are dealing with those "above the law" like any other vigilante. Utilizing methods the law does not, can not, approve. Like Batman, except for his Not Killing. Although he comes very close to crossing lines with his methods, such as dangling criminals off roof edges and even allowing them to drop before catching them. Presuming he bothers to catch them and hasn't calculated they'll survive a drop into a dumpster or whatever is below. Certainly the police do not condone it, except for maybe Gordon.

That said, and as above, anything should be able to stand up to a challenge if it belongs, especially if there are succinct rules in place against which to measure it. It is not as if I expect to "win" each time, but as an Admin of many other wikias, I also understand the need for such challenges to be discussed by the communities and a consensus reached.

And where communities are less than proactive, discussed by the body of admins instead of any unilateral decisions. And lacking other admins in any particular wikia, I attempt to hold a reasonable discussion with specific editors.

I've been told a couple times, "it's already been discussed". Where? Revision Summaries? Where? Because that can be a difficult thing to find if having to scroll back through a couple years worth of revisions. Our own contribution pages only go back 500 entries and and active user on a wikia as large and active as this one, that can be scrolled off very quickly.

So by discussing on talk pages, as the deletion tag instructs, establishes a ready record to point re-challengers to in the future much easier than trying to find anything mentioned in old revision Summaries.