Thread:Merrystar/@comment-1145641-20180819113720

Hello Merrystar,

I saw CJ and Whatweare making a fuss below and wanted to set the record straight.

The Iron Lyons Wikia only appears inactive. In reality, me and EMK do check on it periodically to make sure people are not vandalizing it. I made mostly every page on that Wiki myself and I don't feel it is justified for two users who likely haven't even read the book to come in trying to label things as "spam" and "candidates for deletion".

Iron Lyons is based off of a new book series that came out in 2014. EMK made it and it has since stagnated, that is why the wikia itself hasn't been active. Every page that needs to have been added has been added. I would like to note some pages Whatweare labelled were perfectly fine pages.

https://the-iron-lyons.wikia.com/wiki/Tai_Yang https://the-iron-lyons.wikia.com/wiki/Hairless_Ape https://the-iron-lyons.wikia.com/wiki/Akida https://the-iron-lyons.wikia.com/wiki/Lostris

These articles are not "spam", they are relevant to the site. Frankly, I've never seen anyone add spam pages to a Wikia? They are not even stubs really. Whatweare was planning on deleting character pages and world information for no other reason than "it was less than 300 characters". If that trend were to continue and they were given Administration rights, all that hard work goes down the drain as several pages are not 300 characters. Stubs appear on every wikia. The thing to do is expand upon them (IF you can), not delete them. And there are many things about the Iron Lyons series that have not been explained in depth yet. Again, it's a new series and they should expect this. If Whatweare does not even know this, he doesn't need to be handling Administration tools.

I took the actions I did because I felt like users were vandalizing the wiki by intentionally mislabeling pages. It's happened before (blanking in particular) and troublemakers often attack a wikia they think is unsupervised. No one was trying to "obstruct" them as a candidate. In fact, I thought they were lying about that before I actually came to look for myself.

But yes, for the reasons outlined above, I believe Whatweare is not a fit addition to the administration team. He knows nothing about the wiki he's trying to adopt, does not respect the work of those who came before him, and hasn't even made 100 edits of any real substance. Likely, he doesn't even know anything about the source material. This is something you yourself have said.

Hopefully you will take this into consideration and deny his adoption request. Me and EMK are around, but Iron Lyons as a series - and therefore as a wikia - has simply been put on a hiatus. I actually know EMK and will get them involved if I have to. 