Thread:MasterBattalion8/@comment-39340968-20200216165952/@comment-4970747-20200219084431

Aha, I think I see what's going on. You completely misunderstand what my job is on the GA Encyclopedia, and what the wiki spirit actually is.

Collaboration is the name of the game. I've tremendously enjoyed working with the various editors who have passed through the wikis over the years. A wiki is as much community as content. What you describe me doing is not in spirit of wikis, and is completely untrue. If it were, I would have set up my own ".wiki" domain years ago, and laughed down at everyone from my high-ground like the Atrocimator.

Let's take a trip down memory lane. Before myself, Sigmund and WeltonArsenal became active on the GA Encyclopedia, we were working fairly intensively on the Thunderbirds Wiki, working through episodes one by one and curating the relevant articles. Welton would add the images, Sigmund would write the content and I'd do the boring "behind the scenes" stuff, like general maintenance and polishing the edges. It was a good system. When we had completed cataloguing Thunderbirds, it seemed logical to do the same thing across on the Encyclopedia, which had laid dormant for 3-4 years and only would have had less than 400 pages. And we did. It was exciting to watch something grow and flourish. But for various reasons over time we weren't able to contribute as much. Even though I'd written a few articles on Captain Scarlet topics - mainly episode and character pages - I never really enjoyed it as much as menial fussing over wording and what we titled images.

And that was my job on the wikis. I'm not really what you would call an "editor". I do all the boring but important stuff that no one else wanted to do. So you being mad at me for not having an "Angel Interceptor" page or whatever it was that you couldn't believe we didn't have doesn't make a lot of sense. Just like what you're doing to me, I'm almost game enough to shift the blame over to the "old guard", the first set of contributors to the GA Encyclopedia back in 2011.

Now a few things to clear up. I never pointlessly remove edits. Even though I might not say why I've done something there's always a reason behind it. Which is why I do say that if you're ever confused about something just ask and I'll elaborate on it. Saying things like "proporting absolute lies as truth" will need some sort of citation because I have no idea what you're talking about. In fact, most things you claim should probably be backed up so I know what you're on about. Leaving the wiki in a shamble might be true, but hard for me to judge 'coz I've seen it worse. It's fairly tame comparatively.

Re adding images - that's definitely untrue. Every screenshot I've uploaded has been taken off DVDs run through VLC media player. I'd encourage the same set up for you - for the most part images don't need cropping and are of sufficient quality. If you are having problems, however, there's not really anything I can do on my end about it.

A final two cents: IMHO calling someone an "unprofessional admin" and then in the next breath telling the same person to "smarten up or get lost" and calling them impotent might not have been the best move. As I said, wikis are all about collaboration and sharing, and you seem to have troubles with that. You've come to the watering hole as a newbie and suddenly telling the regulars how it's done. None of us 'outrank' each other, we're in it together - so don't tell me to get lost because you don't agree. I've been biting my tongue about saying the same thing too.

So toodle-oo I guess. I know when I'm wasting my time. Now it's you who can't be reasoned with :) The whole situation is very hypocritical and I hope you can see this.