Thread:JAC69/@comment-39431194-20191112145747/@comment-31372623-20191121232014

For the attention of all commenting here: please note the Wiki Manager's response above regarding the communication that has been taking place with the wiki in question's staff about this situation (namely myself - a moderator on there - on behalf of the admins who are not currently as active due to various commitments).

To put everybody commenting here in the picture, JAC69 has made some good contributions on the wiki over this past year, and I liked this user. However, there were a lot of mass unnecessary edits being made to older pages which they were given guidance and advice about throughout the year, not including the times I had to log on the wiki while I was recovering - still recovering - from a worrying health issue, just to deal with various situations that arose regarding JAC69's edits or questions about edits.

JAC69 falsely claimed on the wiki, quite recently, that there has been no advice or guidance given on his message wall about his edits, but the presence of these messages (and edit note history) will show otherwise. He has, in fact, received countless advice and guidance about edits throughout the course of this year. In relation to the quality of JAC69's edits, many have been good, but many have been unnecessary and had to be reverted, either because they repeat information already implied in the same section, or they were over-explaining a point where conciseness is preferred. Some seemed so unnecessary as though they were done for the sake of making a mark on a page. There was also a period of so many mass unnecessary edits that, in the absence of the two admins, but with their permission, I had to contact the Wiki Manager to disable badge achievements and the ranking table on the wiki, as we suspected that badge collection could be a factor in so many mass minor edits being made. After disabling this feature, the edits did appear to calm down for a while.

As I am a moderator and unable to initiate a block, it was discussed with an admin about the prospect of a temporary block so we can at least try to focus on getting the wiki more up to date and buy it some much-needed breathing space, as this user was placing a real strain on the successful moderation of a currently under-manned wiki. By this I mean that JAC69's continual focus was on making edits to the pages of a four-year-old game when we are at a crucial time where the 5th and final episode of the current game drops in less than two weeks. Since the wiki is one of the most visited (if not the most visited) fan resource, it needs its focus to be on this current game and this final episode. The irony of the situation now is that JAC69's uproar over the block has been distracting us from doing what we intended to do, further affecting the growth of the wiki.

JAC69 was asked to calm down with edits for the older game, but these would pick up again after a short period of less frequency. There was also assurance given by JAC69 that edits would be "even more carefully evaluated" and "fact checked". This didn't seem to be the case. JAC69 was then requested to stop with them completely. They claim this message was not seen (which we cannot prove), so edits continued. The majority of this year has been spent chasing around after this user on older pages in an attempt to preserve the quality and hard work that has gone into these over the years, which has ultimately prevented the wiki from keeping up with the times. We have a good relationship with the game developer studio as well as the publisher, but staff have never felt so distant from our usually close eye on the community, thanks to having to keep a constant eye on what JAC69 is doing on older pages.

This user is a keen fan and keen editor, which we have always appreciated and their devotion as a fan was never in any doubt, but they have also ignored staff advice, re-added things once removed, or tested our patience with little tweaks on pages we have kindly requested them not to touch anymore (due to previous unnecessary additions).

We now also have the following problem:

Since the block, JAC69 has asked me for help on the wiki to defend them against the admin who initiated the block even while I was being slandered by JAC69 over in this original post here (as well as on their Community Central profile set up here seemingly to publicise the same accusations).

Shortly after the above took place, we saw the appearance of at least three non-registered accounts on the wiki that were re-adding many of JAC69’s edits that were previously undone by staff and other editors. Here are three of those accounts:

https://life-is-strange.fandom.com/wiki/Message_Wall:2620:7:6001:0:0:FFFF:C759:E643

https://life-is-strange.fandom.com/wiki/Message_Wall:185.150.44.22

https://life-is-strange.fandom.com/wiki/Message_Wall:2620:18C:0:0:0:0:0:208

As you can see, I left the same message on their walls to request that they no longer continue with this form of vandalism. It seems strange that they were coming to the wiki to focus on JAC69's past edits. You could say it would be a fair assumption that this person is linked to JAC69 or is JAC69.

I also wish to point out the contradictions this user makes in their comments/replies. On this thread where they were notified of the block by the admin, they give the following reason for not seeing my previous request for them to cease edits on the older game's pages:

"I've spent the last days doing some experiments with my Firefox Nightly alternating between No Scipt, Incognito add blocker, Privacy Badger, Addbklock Ultimate and Ghostery to avoid annoying adds, redirects, etc.and allow what I want to come to me, notifications contact attempts, etc. in several sites, trying to improve my browser performance apparently the wikia wall notifications system hasn't reacted well to this, only now with a login and with all of them off, I've received your notification and Cuddlecuffs in a row."

Later in the thread, when a vandalism comment mysteriously appeared that stated "This wiki is run by fascists. You should get out of here!", JAC claimed that this was the work of his "kid brother" and he stated: "I have no formal instruction on how to work with a PC".

Considering he claimed earlier on the thread to have been experimenting with a string of different software to customise his notification experience, I find his stated lack of experience with a PC hard to believe.

We’ve actually seen some dramatic venting from this user before when they wrote a blog on the wiki to complain about feeling targeted over the amount of their edits that were being reverted. They had failed to notice that other editors were getting unnecessary edits reverted too, and this blind spot was pointed out to them by another regular editor on the wiki around this time. (It is perhaps no coincidence that this regular editor has been slandered by JAC69 in the original post here). Simply put: edits would have appeared to be undone more frequently to JAC69 due to the high frequency they were editing on the wiki.

In summary, this user has become quite problematic over this past year, and I'm not the only member of staff who feels disappointed and stressed out by their behaviour. Frankly, I’ve grown rather tired of the rants or sniping comments whenever something doesn’t go their way. To be honest, the recent behaviour probably hasn't done JAC69 any favours in convincing an admin to lift the block.