User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Antagonist "fussing"/Antagonistic Scale & New Policies/@comment-961279-20150823200452

In these situations, people are focusing on one tiny detail, arguing and fighting over it, and ignoring the other 99% of what the character is and does. I've likened it to building a house with bricks, only to have work on the house stop because people can't agree where one brick should be placed. They'll fight over moving it 1/32nd of an inch, or say that the other side should be facing up, or say it should be a different color or made out of a different material or that it has to be at a specific angle or the mortar has to be a specific mixture or the design of that brick needs to be different or that this brick is more important than all the other bricks. Ad nauseum. Meanwhile, the rest of the construction workers are trying to build a house around the people fighting over the brick.

When I was doing research into the edits, there were many users who contradicted themselves. They'd say the character was one kind of antagonist one day, then change it to something else, then back to what it was before. Also ad nauseum.

If you give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe they have some kind of condition that makes the incapable of making up their mind. But without meeting them in the real world, you'd never be able to verify that. So you're left with handling them like any other vandal or troll: provide warnings, or if you think maybe it's a misunderstanding, guidance on how to do things better. In almost all cases where I tried to guide or warn them, it was met with the typical vandal behavior of ignoring those, which made it clear it was deliberate vandalism. The only person who ever responded came up with a very spurious reason to justify their behavior, which was not supported by their edits and did not address why they contradicted themselves.

Fighting and squabbling over such an unimportant detail doesn't help a wiki, and that's why I took the time to do research before creating the policy for Wickedpedia.