All posts by RRabbit42

You create it as a new page and put Template: in front of whatever you want to call it, without a space afterward.

I just checked, and if that was for the Housepets! Villains, it looks like you did it right.

No, don't. Part of why he's doing this is he wants attention. Writing a story about him or saying he's an antagonist for the wiki is giving him attention. In general, the less fuss that's made, the less benefit he gets out of it.

In a way, the warning I send to the people he contacts also gives him attention but it's necessary to make them aware of his behavior and because he keeps coming back to those same people over and over. He seems to think they won't recognize him if he creates a new account or will forget about him after a few months. It's also necessary because of the ongoing violations of Fandom's Terms of Use: threats, impersonation attempts and attempts to gain control of other people's accounts.

The best way to handle this is to notify an admin. They should be familiar enough with his behavior to verify it's him and they'll set a block. If you're not sure, you could leave me a message and I'll check on it. I've been dealing with him enough that there's over 35 different ways I can identify it's him. When he shows up, there's almost always at least 6 in what he says, which make it less likely that it would be a coincidence that a different person might happen to act the same way he does. If you scroll back up through this message, you'll see that I spotted 14 matches with his known behavior for this account. (Note: I won't say what they are because that would tell him what he needs to change in order to avoid being found out.)

I can confirm that's MIDKOWITCH. I've identified fourteen matches with his known behavior, with the possibility of a fifteenth. I originally said six, but as I went through the message, additional points matched.

This message can be deleted because it was created by a Coolster17 sockpuppet and would have been used to justify assigning a label like "overarching", "central" or some other antagonist label.

This message can be deleted because it was created by a Coolster17 sockpuppet and would have been used to justify assigning a label like "overarching", "central" or some other antagonist label.

In general, the amount of screen time should not be used to decide which character is more of an antagonist than another. Characters are on screen for the amount of time necessary to tell their part of the story.

I think it was Joss Whedon that said during the director's commentary of his Serenity movie that it's easier for a comedian to take on a dramatic role than a dramatic actor to take on a comedic role. And sometimes an actor wants to take on a role that goes against how they're typically cast for the challenge.

Sometime before today, the replacement wiki was shut down.

The comments by Hickboy 9000 should be disregarded as it is another MIDKOWITCH sockpuppet.

I'll second that creating a wiki to replace it probably isn't a good idea. The first one tried cleaning it up, but without something clear-cut like only covering persons with a criminal record, a topic like this is prone to being overrun with negative opinions. And that's where legal troubles can come in.

The old wiki and the new one are hosted by Fandom. Even though individual people are creating and updating the information, ultimately, Fandom can be held responsible for material that's considered defamation and libel because it's being published on their servers and made available through their servers. It's not like an ISP such as America Online where information is accessed through them. It's provided by Fandom. A simpler distinction would be if someone drives to commit a crime, the company or organization that built the road isn't responsible for it. But if the road is built for the purpose of committing a crime, the builders are responsible.

If the second wiki is going to have any chance of sticking around, it's something that will have to be governed very carefully. You'd have to come up with a set of rules even more narrowly-defined than the first wiki had and very likely every edit would have to be reviewed to make sure it adhered to the rules.

That's going to be tough. Just look at what it takes here to get people to agree on what constitutes being "Pure Evil" and compare that to the general idea of trying to figure out what kind of an antagonist characters are. And then making sure what's said about people from the real world doesn't drift into defamation and libel?

Good luck.