Adoption:Secret of Evermore Wiki (2)

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What is your username? MasterKnight

Please link to the wiki here: https://secretofevermore.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_of_Evermore_Wiki

How many edits have you made on that wiki? As of posting this, 388

How many days/months have you been editing there? 1 1/2 years

On the Special Pages → Special:ListUsers when was the last time an admin edited, and who was it? DrakeyC last edited on July 20, 2020

Any other information: Let's check the guidelines naturally

Is the wiki inactive? No edits other than my own in the last MONTH.

'''No sustained editing by other users. If there are other users please start a blog post or other public discussion of new leadership before making your request and allow users at least a week to respond.''' Not a single edit in the last month.

Admins have been inactive for 60 days or more Inactive for 9 months

Duplicative Wiki? Not a chance.

Are you eligible to adopt?

You have not founded, adopted, or been given admin access on another wiki in the last 60 days Nope. I have requested admin access on another Wikia but it didn't go through, as I'll get into right about...now.

You have not been blocked on another Wikia project Short answer: I doubt I am. Long answer is VERY much more complicated. Grab a drink; I'm going to need to go into detail that will require a Collapsible for length convenience, as well as the ability to be more able to post my stuff without fear of accusations of "shilling" like I've had thrown in my direction in the past.

The most likely place I would be blocked from would be Divinipedia, although by all indications, THAT is unlikely. I do still wish to call out the possibility because of the politics involved regardless. The admin made a remark recently that I am "combative", to which I have not responded directly over how tone-deaf and accusatory the comment overall is because it's excuse fishing by an admin. If I am blocked, it would be in interest of "keeping the peace", to which I make the following points: 1) I would be blocked outside any established rules, which violates Wikia's new policy against unfair blocking. 2) This would involve off-site politics, not exactly a good look for a site wanting to be objective in general. 3) Since we're going to go into these politics, I need only point out that the Kid Icarus Uprising community has its share of nasty characters. Exhibit A (language warning), a Twitter comment, recent at that, that basically tells people to put up or shut up with Kid Icarus Uprising's controls despite how messy those are to common complaint I have no real disagreement with despite being a southpaw myself who has adapted heavily to them. Exhibit B, a comment by a moderator being arbitrary towards the topic creator (me to be sure) for bringing up how one of the game's mechanics is handled by the general populace. And of course, Exhibit C (language warning again; also actually taken by the guy named "Prince Wily" in the image, who has given me express permission to use the image for this), from a Kid Icarus Uprising Discord server, which has the admin involved (Tricoloryoshi) tell the other person involved to "go to incel dot com", keeping in mind that the insult "incel" screams at people to objectify women via open, sadistic bragging that fosters tribalism.

That last point is what pushes the Divinipedia admin's excuse making into a problem. And I need to expand on why, dear GOD.

The "incel dot com" insult particularly gets to me with the community because it's a part of show how the community is far from repentent about their past with the "evolve or die" mentality that they have shown and accepting Clan names like "Don't Cry Noob." When I confronted the "incel dot com" insult deliverer about it directly, they tried defending themselves as having been sarcastic, to which I call GROSS hypocrisy, in addition to not even at least having the excuse of establishing themselves as world-weary. Oh, and when did this issue happen? January 29, 2021. That's recent enough to warrant my calling out of that problem on my Blog entries there.

This sort of issue is what would guarantee having the creator of Kid Icarus Uprising, Masahiro Sakurai, look upon us Americans as hostile idiots. It discourages him from caring what us Americans would have to say about the game's design, which has more than its fair share of need of sanding out the edges if a sequel or remake were to happen. My interest would to prove that empathy is what makes me adept as well, showcased here as the latest example (the video actually does a No Damage Run of an infamous boss in that game, by the way, and the video was made with intent to aid somebody with a Treasure Hunt entry about the level in general, not to do particularly well against said boss) as what allows me to cite what is and isn't a problem as well to show to Sakurai that we're not all like that and some of us would take interest in Kid Icarus Uprising over the point that it creates a welcome happy medium to the idea of unconditional flinching. Additionally, the name "Divinipedia" comes from Kid Icarus Uprising in a one-off name drop to make it noticeable, so that would have been my best chance to make sure my input would reach Sakurai.

Unfortunately, the Divinipedia admin wanted to basically mud sling in my direction, effectively enabling the "incel dot com" insulter as a result given that hostility by a moderator on another Kid Icarus Uprising board already from Exhibit B. Even if I can be clumsy on a regular basis, I can at least call out their stone throwing in their glass house, particularly when the Divinipedia admins have not made substantial edits on the mainspace in the last half a year, discounting dubious removal of Trivia that the user who added the Trivia, JDPManjoume, disputed in the first place, to my agreement with JDPManjoume when the Trivia could have been reworded for more neutral handling.

I will mention that the conflict with the Divinipedia admin is in fact over an admin access request, the same one I mentioned in fact. I mention that because I should point out that a big reason to make the request, beyond cleanup efforts to address things like the pages for individual Powers giving the charge counts their own subsections, was to have security against the unwarranted hostility of the Kid Icarus Uprising community. The admin claimed I shouldn't have admin powers because my presence as one would be disruptive, effectively creating open season with that same hostility out of at best willful ignorance. I did not have popularity when adopting the Advance Wars Wikia, which similarly involves one of the more active Advance Wars communities advocating a guy who mocked a lust-induced murder victim (as I mentioned there, by the way) and to this day still victim blames said victim.

Just for good measure, when I talked about this on the personal Discord server of the guy who was "Prince Wily" in the Exhibit C pic, he ended up saying this right there: ''Hmm... Sometimes people are power hungry. & that's something the community sort of thrives on as well. Having power. However I feel like things could be handled much better or to the point where we can all reach certain agreements or conclusions so that we don't bash each other's brains out.'' This is a point I very much agree with, and you can see how the Kid Icarus Uprising community has devolved into some ugly hawk-dove games shutting out reason to even show empathy or remorse or anything like that, instead of caring to fix this.

Under the above points, I firmly request Wikia/Fandom to additionally step in on Divinipedia, power use being kept to necessity being fine, even preferable if anything to avoid aggravated problems, as long as the actions involved achieve the following goals:
 * Create a safe space for making things more inviting for Sakurai to listen about things like the cause of the obscene popularity of the Power "Celestial Firework" happening for all the wrong reasons, in interest of making gameplay of a remake or sequel to Kid Icarus Uprising more kinetic and less of an elitism breeding ground
 * Maximize the likelihood of Sakurai noticing these points in the first place while having him care about my side of the story, which you can see is interested in checking what works and what doesn't
 * Discourage nasty people from pulling hostile behavior toward my person, especially in a place where it wouldn't be warranted in the first place
 * If I am blocked, that should additionally be reviewed for good measure, granted that I should be A-OK

Of course, finally getting back on track, I should mention that I wouldn't have to worry about politics happening on Secret of Evermore's own Wikia. The closest I have to politics with Secret of Evermore happens to be involving a popular Let's Player who slandered my person by blowing points of mine out of proportion, abusing his popularity and the block button on his social media in the process so that I couldn't provide my side of the story about wanting the Let's Player to at least mention through his megaphone something useful about the points I have brought up here to provide reason to be glass half-full about Secret of Evermore. However, thankfully for once, the rather...loyal fanbase of the Let's Player in question only regard Secret of Evermore as just another fad, so I won't have to worry about people among their number coming in to call me "100% a troll" while claiming sincerity after already twisting my words and general input. I mention this as how my interest in adopting the Secret of Evermore Wikia would not be politically motivated, or definitely not enough to be problematic at any rate. I would rather not have politics elsewhere get in the way of that, especially not unfairly.

PHEW!

Are you contributing to the wiki's content?

You have principally edited content pages on the wiki each day for at least a consecutive week prior to the time that your application is submitted I even fixed up a Template so that it wouldn't be the God awful link management mess it once was. I am thinking of putting further cleanup ideas up for discussion as well.

You have created at least one new page in the main namespace (the more the better) I created the Axe page and added its image.

You are currently editing the main namespace Naturally.

You must be using natural English language (wiki language) for wiki edits to adopt wiki English is my native language anyway.

Are you building the community?

You make an effort to talk to other users -- you've left friendly and encouraging messages on user talk pages and responded to questions on article talk pages, forums, or blogs. I have no reason not to. I'm particularly interested in discussing management of the Wikia with the users in the interest of improving navigation and also inviting growth in the Wikia.

You keep the wiki looking well-tended and up to date -- update news sections, add new pictures and videos related to the topic, etc. I certainly added that picture on the Axe page, fixed a few Templates, added some information, you get the idea.

Does the wiki's topic have a natural audience? Secret of Evermore is admittedly niche with its share of flaws, but there are people who do take interest regardless, and have done so back in the day as well. There's even a few Discord servers about it, so that won't be a problem.

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I don't know if this would provide satisfactory answer, but I am sure it should, in which case I would certainly welcome Bureaucrat rights on the Secret of Evermore Wikia. An organized effort in at least getting something set up would definitely help it out.