Thread:Merrystar/@comment-764088-20140420073006

Hello, Merrystar.

Thanks for assisting me with my inquiries for the past 6 years here at Wikia and its Wikis. I hope you don't mind helping me once again with an issue we've been having at Adventure Time Wiki. As you probably know, I'm the Founder of AT Wiki, the largest Adventure Time online community in the world. Last year, a new user joined our community under the name Yuzura. He was a bit of a reformist, going against all the rules we have set. Although he has broken countless of Wiki rules within the past year due to this, he was really helpful with Main Space edits. The majority of the Wiki's users disliked him and were angry when we considered promoting him. We should have heeded the warnings of the other users.

Earlier this year, he disappeared for a few months. He created a new account for an unknown reason and returned last month. At the same time, I had announced I was going on a temporary hiatus to catch up with work and my last year of college. He took advantage of this and instantly acted. The first thing he does is create a blog with his old account, making up lies and rumors about me and some fellow crats as an excuse to demote us. He also held a "false vote" on his blog to demote me, and the other crats. Despite the vote taking place in an inappropriate place, the votes were all made up by him and does not reflect the votes of the other users. He admit to holding a conversation via chat, regarding my demotion. He convinced a bunch of people I should be demoted because I am "never" on chat anymore, which was partially untrue and out of context. All these people commented against me in his blog to make it look like the community was against us. All the crats and admins were always against this blog because it created public disturbance and also because votes belong in the forums.

All this also took place right after most of our admins quit and caused an uproar. I find it unfortunate that he had to cause another public discrepancy right after I managed to calm things down. Me and the other crats began talking to him in efforts to settle the situation. However, before we got anywhere, all my rights were stripped while I was on a trip. Along with some crats and admins, I have tried to settle this with him, peacefully, but we seem to be getting nowhere. This is why I am taking this matter to you. There were two main reasons Yuzura gave for my demotion:

1. I am "very inactive" and "never" on chat. - The fact is I am on the wiki everyday, watching over everything that goes on. I am on the chat occasionally, but usually during the more quiet hours due to my schedule. Yes, I haven't made much edits recently, but a crat shouldn't be removed unless they have been inactive for 2 years, as you had told me. Besides, I have been constantly active with my crat duties although most of it take place through AIM with the other crats.

2. I promote users according to my will - The fact is we have a rule where executive actions such as these cannot be executed unless with permission from two crats. Every promotion we have made were thoroughly discussed. It turned out Yuzuru was simply against the 2-crat rule. He claimed that Wikia is a "democracy" and that this rules, that we have put in place 5 years ago, is leading to a "monarchy". Me, Sparda, and Waddle were against establishing a government within our wiki and simply wanted to stick to the rules. Because of this, we naturally became his targets. His reformist ideals have caused much trouble for us in the past, but this crosses the line.

He also managed to convince people that I was biased in promoting a user who had poor edits because I knew him in real life. This was also untrue. I actually met and promoted this user when he joined the wiki during its early stages. Yes, he has poor edits compared to the other admins, but that is because he was the best we had, 5 years ago, before the wiki was popular.

I would appreciate if you can help assist in this matter. Also, I would like to check which user had ignorantly stripped me of my rights so I can speak to him/her. Whoever this user was, he/she never even bothered consulting me and looking into the issue clearly.

Best, Tavis 