Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5785681-20160906020112/@comment-1618941-20160918211924

98.116.87.100 wrote: Could you please explain why you're defending vandalism?

I have never defended vandalism.

98.116.87.100 wrote: Perhaps you don't see it as such. Ergo...

An overambitious new editor does some editing. In doing so, they delete pertinent info from the wikia. An admin of the wikia politely asks the editor to restore the info and to please not do it again (no hard feelings). In response, the editor deliberately goes back into the wikia (within days) and once again eliminates the very info he/she was asked to leave intact. The admin temorarily blocks the editor.

The admin acted appropriately; the editor did not. The consequences were made clear. The behavior was repeated and the consequence followed. If anyone following this thread thinks there should have been a different outcome, I am happy to hear it.

98.116.87.100 12:27, September 18, 2016 (UTC)

Well we disagree on what is appropriate then. The admin acted very inappropriately. What should have been done was a check of the infobox and its functionality when it was updated months ago. Having failed that, and having failed to restore the missing parameter, a problem was created whereby an editor chanced along and found that and other problems, then set about removing all the junk data that wasn't being displayed. The admin then failed to assess the truth of the situation and fired off an accusation before finally coming here for technical assistance, which looks about the first thing done right in all of this.

Then what happened is these two started reverting one another: one fixing three problems and creating one, while the other recreates three problems to fix one. Then the inappropriate handling of the situation goes through the roof when the admin again fails to accurately gauge the situation and dumps an extremely long block into the mix.

So now there is an admin who can't admin, and an editor who won't communicate. It's lose, lose all around.