Thread:Merrystar/@comment-25558247-20180819201827

I was informed by Werebereus that there have been some issues arising with other users regarding the Wikia, its content, and its activity levels. I am the one who created the Wikia, a few years back, as a way for fans of the novel series I am working on could have a repository of information about that series. It is a world I came up with, developed, and wrote a book about, and while I admit I have hit a rough patch with regards to writing more books as yet, it by no means indicates I am not invested in the world and the future of more stories set in that world that I created.

Werebereus has shown me some of the 'edits' proposed to the Wikia, and a number of what I see are these other user(s) noting pages as "spam" -- 14 on the first page of activity alone -- when those pages are regarding central characters (Tai Yang for example) or locations in the world. It might be one thing if these were extraneous pages of tiny things, but some of these are cental to the stories and places. It would be like marking as "spam" or "candidate for deletion" the pages on Darth Vader for a/the Star Wars Wikia, Jack Reacher on a Lee Child Wikia, or similar; these are not 'spam' pages, but posts on central characters, themes, events, places, etc, and integral to the stories and the understanding of them. Since this is apparently not something these other user(s) know at all or are familiar with to any degree, I don't see how they would know what is or is not a candidate for deletion or 'spam' with regards to the Iron Lyons world, and as such, why they would be allowed to become an admin for the pages at all.

That all aside, I wrote the book in question, on which the Wikia is based, and I would think that best qualifies me to know what is or is not important to a world I created. I am not a fan of the book/world, I am its creator. That is not to say other people cannot have input or make suggestions or advise on what they think might work better for the pages and so on, but to continue to mark pages as 'spam' and so on after being told this is not what they are, and to try and force the issue is I think taking things too far. If they were banned for continuing to make changes that were not necessary and in fact hurt the sharing of information this Wikia is about, then that is an appropriate use of the ban function; else why have that function at all? We could simply keep changing things back after they are tampered with, but that's a waste of time for all involved.

Thank you for taking the time to read any or all of this and to put it into consideration for what you decide, and if you have further questions or concerns you think I personally need to address (as the creator of the Iron Lyons Wikia), please share them with me and allow me the time to provide information and context, or simply work something out.

Best regards, E.M. Kinsey 