Thread:B1bl1kal/@comment-37042690-20181231152934/@comment-2059440-20190101100128

here's how I feel is fairest to deal with this : admins make a final say on the matter between themselves and weigh the benefits versus the negatives, it seems stupidly complex but Patrick's page presents unique problems in that it provides a floodgate effect.. if we allow him on the wiki, then any anti-heroic character is then presented as "fair game" (we had similar problems with Beast).

yet there's also evidence Patrick is far from a normal anti-hero/jerk either, so it can be seen both ways.. however, like Mr. Bean etc, mean-spirited comedy is kind of a factor you have to consider too.. the comedy comes from being mean-spirited, thus characters (even protagonists) are pretty nasty but zero canon means they rarely seem to have the same nasty qualities in every episode (with the exception of "always evil" Plankton).

we had a Discussion, we never came up with a fixed answer - probably time to do this, so that's a "to do" for admins, *if* he returns we need to also kind of be wary of category-spam, even if he's done "every crime imaginable" remember that too many categories is still a bad thing.. people should know what most of his crimes are via the article, categories should be for the main traits of a character, not every single misdeed ever done (or Joker's page would be about 100000000 categories long).