Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2604:6000:1500:81FC:587B:C070:1D5A:34F2-20190127100115

I am wondering if there is anyway to get some relief via Fandom staff / community for a problem I am facing with an administrator. This is a somewhat nuanced issue and I would expect that there may be a divide in the perspective of who is "right or wrong" in this situation. I am not well versed in "wikian" culture- although I have spent countless hours reading and using wikis, as well as making many contributions to several wiki communities. I am certainly no bureaucrat, however I have no doubt that these many contributions have been integral to completion and maintenance of resources. Everything I do has a point, and I have never had problems with contributing to any other wiki.

An admin who was inactive for a long period of time has recently come back, and threatened the only current active contributor of an incomplete wiki (me)- by saying that they could or might do a complete revocation of my edits. This is on a wiki for the "Dark Cloud" videogame series.

While my perspective on what has caused this "rift" is detailed below, I am simply asking what channels might be explored for receiving help by some kind of negotiator, as negotiations proved useless with this person once they began to take pride in being able to make me totally uninterested in an entire community. This saddens me greatly as the wiki is very much incomplete with virtually no active contributors other than me, and I have the time and motivation to further continue to work on it.

For those trying to understand the main points of what I perceive to be the dispute. I have tried to state my case clearly but expect that it will need to be discussed further in the case that an outside entity may assist in resolving the issue.

Admin believes that all items in the game (e.g. Soap) should be located/represented ONLY in 1 table and ONLY on one article. This table is incomplete as of right now, with the admin stating that they had no intention to fill it in themselves and that they didn't play or enjoy the game. It should also be noted that it seems it would be rather difficult to fit all of the potential information about an item, into this table, even with significant alterations to its format.

The admins aparent reason for wanting to keep all items in one table apparently comes from their belief that having a page for each item is "pagespam". This conflicts with the way in which I have seen many other videogame wikis catalogue items, such as the Resident Evil or Runescape Classic wikis.

https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Herb

(By the admins standard, the Resident Evil wiki would have this item categorized and represented ONLY in a table, and only in 1 article labled "Recovery items"

It should be noted that the administrators apparent problems with the direction of the wiki were not with the quality of edits, vandalism concerns, or issues with anything other than the addition of pages which he deemed to be unnecessary. Their concern was with what they call "pagespam" which in this case seems an excessive/incorrect label to the situation, given the way many other videogame wikis catalogue the items found..

When discussing this matter with several representatives of other wikis, they told me that this administrator seemed to be acting against the best interest concerning the growth and usability of the wiki.

Please help if you can- I don't want to abandon work on this wiki. I also don't want it to be held captive to someone who refuses to discuss things with the community. Especially when they themsleves are not an active contributor or user of the wiki, much less a player of the game it concerns or an active member in its very small community.

Hopefully someone reads this and can forgive my (likely incomplete) assessment of the sitatution. I am not looking to oust or remove this admin, so much as come to an understanding which is favorable for the administrator as well as the users of the wiki.

Best regards,

2001 