Thread:Melomene/@comment-31029665-20170127110654/@comment-24494906-20170129012739

You sent me a message about this on another wiki. I have read through several threads and tried to understand what went down. Here's my point of view:


 * Admins aren't around 24/7 to deal with everything that comes up. Sometimes something in real life takes precedence over dealing with issues on the wiki. I also don't expect you to appear at a moment's notice whenever I call you.
 * When you change something, the burden of proof lies on you. That won't go away by adding it over and over again. Give a citation and you're done. That also makes it much easier to verify the correctness of some information in the article later. Moreover, we've been strict in the last few months about adding speculation into articles. We really want to keep inferences to a minimum, as we've been bitten by wrong inferences in the past.
 * Your edit getting undone is no reason to take it personal and throw a tantrum.
 * We are currently understaffed, but even when we were able to check more edits to the wiki, the discussion moderators and admins were never able to read through all posted comments. The number of comments has recently fallen, but until not long ago several hundred comments per day were posted. We rely on people pointing us to single bad comments that were overlooked. If nobody bothers to do this, the comment won't be dealt with.
 * It's nice that you made some screenshots, but hunting down these comments just using these is a pain. Links are more helpful, then we can deal with it.
 * We have a faction of troublemakers on the wiki. They know how to behave to not get banned, because they just stop short of violating the rules or the rule violations are too small. Nimudash is one of them. We are aware of his behavior (and the behavior of his "friends") and have been thinking about how to deal with it.
 * Nimudash should have been reprimanded about the nickname he used for you, that's true. But keep in mind admins are also just people. They also have to deal with other stuff than the trouble created by you and Nimudash.
 * I don't think you behaved any better than Nimudash. And neither you nor Nimudash got banned for their behavior in comments or on the wall.
 * I agree that this section on Scarecrow's page needs to be improved, but it's not like it is plain wrong. However, that the section needs improvement does not give you the right to just remove everything completely.
 * Sometimes anons appear and just vandalize pages by removing not flat-out wrong text without providing a (reasonable) replacement. As we often have to deal with this kind of behavior by anons, we're particularly trigger-happy in these kinds of situations, and we usually immediately issue bans.
 * You would have probably not been banned if you had made that edit under your user account, and instead we would have tried to discuss this with you. However, that's not what you did. But anyway, I feel that you would have done something else then that would have resulted in your ban.
 * I don't buy that you accidentally logged out to edit this one page. I believe you intended to obfuscate who was behind that edit. We cannot tolerate such behavior. Your ban stays in place.
 * This thread here also does not instill confidence in me that you have actually understood what is wrong with your conduct. If you plan to return, please think about it and fix your behavior. It'll make life easier for both you and us.