Thread:Jeff Meredith/@comment-961279-20160318162954

Jeff, we've been over this before. The reason why I am being persistent in removing information like this is because so many people, including yourself in the past, have made wild statements (often without any proof), are unable to make up their minds, contradict themselves and fight with others about what kind of antagonist a character is. 161 different ways of defining what kind of antagonist Randall Boggs is is about 150 more than there should be.

Because people have been abusing the antagonistic scale as LucidPigeons calls it, I am doing what I can to put an end to the fighting and to reduce the amount of ridiculousness on this subject. It is not attempting to put a wiki at my mercy, nor a vengeance, nor a hatred. I have explained my reasons in blogs such as this one and no one has been able to present any rebuttle that shows how such rigid definitions benefit wikis. However, if you want to call my actions "persistence", "tenacious" or "doggedness", I'll accept that.

I'm glad to see you're helping out on this and I'd like to encourage you to go a step further. One of the other abuses I've seen is what I call "category spamming". That is when people spend a lot of their time only adding categories to pages. When it gets really bad, there are more categories on a page than there are words describing who the character is. Categories are necessary to help organize pages, but they shouldn't be used to replace descriptions on the page itself about who the character is, what their motivations are and what they do. So before you or anyone else clicks on the "Add Category" button, take a moment to think, "Do I really need to add this category so it will help organize the page or am I adding a category just to add a category" and "Can I put information on the page that will do the same job as this category?" Focus on adding to the page itself instead of the categories, please. 