Thread:Love Robin/@comment-961279-20160117075456

I thought I'd answer your message here to keep it separate from the blog I wrote.

I stop here occasionally, but this was prompted by what's been happening on two other wikis started by the same guy. We wanted his own version of the Villains Wikia, but went for the broader category of antagonists, and created two nearly-identical wikis on that same subject. Then he left.

As a result, the people who went to those wikis duplicated efforts, but some of them contradicted themselves, saying different things about the same character on each wiki and changing their mind almost daily. Categories on them are a mess. It's like they said, "Ooh, I think I'll add whatever grandiose category I can think of to fit my opinion of this character". And kept on clicking on "Add Category" as many times as they could, so that some pages have more categories than the body of the page has words to describe the character.

The other part of this is what I've called "antagonist fussing" and is called "abuse of the antagonistic scale" here. In short, for one character, people came up with 161 different ways of calling him an antagonist, fighting and getting into edit wars, and contradicting themselves by changing that rigid description almost every time they edited the page.

All of that has spilled over to other wikis, including this one, so the efforts I am making to help get this cleaned up and cut back on the ridiculousness are being shared here. 