Thread:TimeShade/@comment-29360044-20200513042840

Greetings. I was told to message you, though I figured it safest to do it off of the Disney Wiki.

The Disney Wiki has had a very unique issue when it comes to user rights. It seems that the wiki is being run by a content moderator named Alex2424121 (https://www.disney.fandom.com/wiki/User:Alex2424121). Now, Alex is clearly a very dedicated user and I have respect for that, but my issues lie in how it seems he has been making decisions without consulting the admin he is supposed to be working with, and that the admin answer to him and not the other way around. An example of this was when I proposed an update to the wiki's wordmark to the site's then only Bureaucrat. Before I was able to get any feedback from her or a far more active administrator (https://www.disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1169024), Alex intervened and told me off. He sent threatening messages on chat, of which I have the logs for, on numerous occasions, which I reported to administrators, who sympathized with me but could not do anything about it, which I will circle back to later. Here’s another example of an interaction I had with him: https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1168943. For the sake of preventing drama I have tried to keep talking about Alex to private messages in chat or on Discord. I have discussed this over with several mods and there are a good number who agree with me that he has been overstepping his position. He was previously demoted from administratorship in 2017, according to his rights log, for intimidating users, and long-time users who are staff members (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1169143) have had problems with him, both on the Wiki and on the Discord. Unfortunately I've been encountering a problem with Alex2424121 in regards to stub articles. He's been deleting essential pages like Moff Gideon, the main antagonist from The Mandalorian and Neel Sethi, star of the 2016 film The Jungle Book. Him deleting stub articles, and participating in edit wars over edits designed to make certain pages consistent with the manual of style makes it harder to expand the wiki and get pages up to standard. He created a blog post (https://disney.fandom.com/User_blog:Alex2424121/Actor_Pages) asking everyone to expand the pages in a way that is not consistent with the manual of style, but then deletes those pages and other stub articles, making it hard to expand them regardless. The function of the stub tag is to make sure that pages are expanded, and he reverts edits that add them onto pages he expects to be expanded. (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1174188) It should also be noted that he will lock articles that are deleted (such as Neel Sethi) preventing any improvement to their contents It doesn't seem as though he consults any administration on whether these pages should be there, and it doesn't feel right. A content moderator shouldn't be making unilateral decisions for the entire wiki. He has exerted pressure over certain admin to ban users as he sees fit, even users that do not break the rules, which is not how his role is designed. When I pointed out one of the users that was banned was not breaking any rules, both to Alex (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1177539) and to the administrator (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1166820), the administrator nevertheless proceeded to ban the user with Alex’s exact terms, without looking further into it, deleting my message (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1166820?action=history). Other admin, including GrayWolf2 and JeremyCreek, have told me in the private chat that they have been afraid to do something about Alex due to fear of repercussions, since they are merely administrators, and are worried that Alex may retaliate, or in one administrator's case, attempt to get them demoted. I'm not against Alex being on the wiki, but a wiki the size of the Disney wiki needs its appointed leadership to step up, and users on the Wiki, myself included, feel that Alex abusing his role the way that he does gets in the way of that. I probably should also add that the wiki is severely lacking in the number of administrators. The wiki's activity compares heavily with Wookiepedia but we only have a fifth of the administrators. This lets for periods in time (I've noticed the afternoons EST) where there seem to be no admin present. Our only Bureaucrat is inactive and does not respond to in-community conflict (https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1174178). This is a problem that should be addressed. I am a massive fan of Disney and of Fandom, and I want to see the Disney wiki succeed, to be in the best shape that it can be.

Thank you.  