for anyone confused why Nerd has returned to the wiki I gave my reasons to admins (Jester and Valkerone), Jester agreed to his return:
"I have been keeping up with some Angry Video Game Nerd stuff and I think he could earn a place back in the wiki, the series has made it quite clear now that Nerd has a darker personality he keeps fighting against so he is honestly a case of Dissociative, especially in some of the more recent videos he is shown to fight against this dark personality so while Nerd is a "good" guy he definitely has some extremely antagonistic parts to him.. we have Nostalgia Critic despite Critic technically being an anti-hero so I figure Nerd should come back, especially with the newer revelations (he's always had a dark aspect.. remember that it is now pretty much canon he started as Board James, went insane and killed his friends, then became Nerd.. the Nerd persona was pretty malevolent and continues to surface every now and then.. while it's all comedic it doesn't stop the fact he's dangerous enough to qualify for a page)."
in short Nerd was removed hastily at a time we were wanting to rid ourselves of fringe pages but the lore has (surprisingly) expanded since then, with Board James being revealed canonically as Nerd there's no denying he fits.. not to mention the "angrier" Nerd persona revealed in some newer Nerd pieces (most notably the finale) Inferno Pendragon (talk) 21:56, 27 December 2021 (UTC)