Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-405491-20170302070051

Hi, I thought it would be best to bring this up with the community because there is an admin on the Mass Effect wiki abusing their power. They are seemingly removing almost complete control for anyone apart from them, his friend TheUnknown285, and occasionally another admin to edit the wiki. They are continuously reverting edits with no reasoning and banning anyone who speaks out against them. If you check their page here:

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Temporaryeditor78

..you will see that almost all of their contributions are reversions of edits. But, if you check the things they are reversing, they tend to be things that contribute *positively* to the page, yet the admin is reverting it without reason. For example (and sorry if this link doesn't work):

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Geth_Juggernaut_Soldier?diff=prev&oldid=471064

..you will notice that user added a bunch of helpful and completely relevant information to the page that must have taken some time to write. The admin then removed it with no reason given. I on the other hand was banned for updating a picture of a character, http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Pelessaria_B%27Sayle, from her old out-of-date appearence in an early demo to match her current and final build from the latest trailer. I incorrectly used a jpeg format and was told if I upload it in that quality I'll be banned, so I uploaded a new picture in the correct png format and was still banned for 2 weeks. The picture I was replacing was originally uploaded by that admin.

I went to bring this up with the other admins but it turns out that I'm not the only one to have this problem. Looking at another admins talk page:

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/User_talk:Elseweyr

..it appears that many people have brought up problems with the admin I'm having trouble with, Temporaryeditor78, multiple times. There is problems with this admin brought up in the 2015 archive, and there are multiple on that current page. All seem to be detailing similar grievances; the admin is reverting edits, stifling contributions to hold almost complete control over pages they have an interest in, and banning people with little to no reason. They rarely, if ever, communicate what they're doing and they are hostile when they do so. I strongly suggest reading that talk page as you will see multiple users bringing up problems such as the admin banning them without warning, and even banning them for 2 weeks (like in my case) despite the contributions not being vandalism or offensive behaviour. For example, here is a message from one of the users on that page:

START QUOTE: "If you look at his contributions, over 94% of his revisions of other people's edits are NOT given a reason in the changelog. This has been going on for years. I find this unacceptable, and I believe it is against community guidelines. If you check Temp's talk page, the few people who actually ask him why there edits were reverted out of the literal HUNDREDS of users who have had their edits revised without reason given, are often not given a reply at all. When they are, it is very often sarcastic and very nasty, and the reason is often Temp's opinion.

Speaking of Temp's talk page, he has so many complaints against him and yet no action has been taken against him. This is very confusing to me.

Especially when he so often and unforgivingly breaks the community guidelines. I.E. The multitude of his bans are given WITHOUT WARNING, you can see so yourself if you have access to ban logs. His excuse given in an example towards the top of your talk page is entirely unacceptable. This has happened countless times.

So really my question is, why is he allowed to remain Admin? Is it because you two are friends? Really I can't see why he is still given any power beyond that of a normal user given his blatant abuse of it and disrespect/toxic communication with other users. In fact I can't believe he hasn't been banned." END QUOTE.

There is a new Mass Effect game coming out next month so the wiki should explode with new content. But with this admin there stopping contributions I think the wiki will suffer greatly. They are actively harming the wiki by controlling and deleting information, and they are (as outlined by other users who brought up similar grievances to mine) creating a site where few people edit it because doing so will result in hostility, reversions and even bans despite the fact their contributions are both positive and not breaking any rules. If you check out that other admins page you will see users even call out the fact that the Mass Effect wiki has very few editors BECAUSE OF this toxic admin.

I don't feel like this admin should be an admin for this wiki due to clear evidence of repeated abuse of power since at least 2015. They are negatively impacting the site in a huge way and are abusing their power massively. The only other regularly active admin seems to be doing nothing about this either, so this is why I've contacted the community so something can be done.

I strongly suggest checking the recent activity on the Mass Effect wiki, and checking out all these links and pages, and you will see that this admin is repeatedly stopping or reversing the contributions of anyone but him and TheUnknown285.

I would absolutely love to hear back from the community regarding this admin problem. I feel like something should be done to strip this admin of their power so the wiki can be used and contributed to by the community the way it's supposed to. Due to how big the Mass Effect series is, and due to a new game coming out in less than a month, I feel like this admin should not be there due to the harm they're causing and how toxic they are.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this. I would love to hear back from the community regarding this.  