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Excessive-Menace (Fifth Year at Tropey's)
2024-01-26 18:23:42

Are there any official sources, like interviews, confirming that Ruby Gillman is based on Neighbours from Hell? If not, then it should be removed as false info.

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jandn2014 Since: Aug, 2017
2024-01-26 19:23:53

I find it very dubious that a big-budget Dreamworks flick was based off an obscure, short-lived Flash animated sitcom, even if they did share the same creator. It's certainly possible that the writer was inspired to use the same plot point by her previous work, but "non-humans have to disguise themselves as humans and live a normal life" is not an original idea.

Vilui Since: May, 2009
2024-01-26 19:35:24

I've undone the edit to Trivia.Top Wing, since the identity of the vandal is irrelevant and the shoehorned edit was ungrammatical to boot — the series didn't spring from a hoax.

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-26 19:36:42

^ Agreed.

I sent Mayormontagu a PM asking them to cite their sources. If they can't come up with any legitimate ones, then the entries should be axed.

ETA: Ninja'd twice over. Whoops.

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2024-01-27 01:18:40

Is anyone else concerned that Tropers/Mayormontagu appears to be repeatedly adding dubious information like this? Maybe I’m missing something, but this looks like persistent, systematic vandalism.

Edited by BoltDMC
dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-01-27 05:13:35

Mayormontagu has also committed an edit war on the Neighbors from Hell by repeatedly adding that information.

They then also added a list of similarities under Shout-Out

Edited by dcutter2
Arctimon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2024-01-27 05:21:14

“Sorta true information” sounds like they’re looking for a confrontation at this point.

Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2024-01-27 05:57:56

Suspended, feel free to remove dubious claims.

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-27 08:26:48

In their PM to me, they also admitted that they were, indeed, the "high school student from upstate New York" as Sudric theorized. So that can be axed if it hasn't already.

"Sorta true information" pretty much all but solidifies that they can't back their claims up with legitimate proof, as well.

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-02-02 02:10:49

Just bumping this as Mayormontagu has edited the claim back into Trivia.NeighborsFromHell.

They don't seem to have been cleared by edit banned, so were they actually suspended?

BoltDMC Since: May, 2020
2024-02-02 03:23:09

^ Good question. The suspension announcement above is dated January 27, but they made three edits on January 28 and two on the 30th (none since then, though).

Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2024-02-02 03:54:29

Error on my part. Now they are.

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-02-02 04:25:36

Should the edit on Trivia.Neighbors From Hell be reverted, then? They haven't responded back to me since the 27th with anything to back up their claims, though if they were still making edits pre-ban then I don't have much hope of a response.

I'll pose the same question for the edits they've made between the 27th and the 30th, too — there are a few English errors within them, and as discussed, they're erroneous without proof to back them up. One's an Expy entry that should probably be taken to the appropriate cleanup thread.

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
Ultimatum (Old as dirt)
2024-02-02 07:12:06

revert

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-02-03 11:33:39

Makes sense to revert. I'd do it but I did it last time. (Yes, this wouldn't technically be an edit war but I'd rather not have to explain that)

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-02-03 23:34:59

Another troper got to some of the edits first and reverted them, but I took care of the rest. Might be a few stragglers but I think I got them all.

I'll take the Expy example to the cleanup thread. I'd have axed them but I figured going through the thread first wouldn't hurt.

Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
Ferot_Dreadnaught Since: Mar, 2015
2024-02-04 12:11:29

Mayormontagu PM'd me about shout outs. Not sure what it means.

My one edit citing this thread was under Trivia.Neighbors From Hell, but the PM subject is "Your recent edit for: Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken", where the edit I made, removing a YMMV they added to the non YMMV page, had nothing to do with such. I did some formatting under the YMMV page but didn't change any of the content.

Bringing here because it might be an ongoing issue.

dcutter2 Since: Sep, 2013
2024-02-04 13:40:33

I cut Shout-Out from the Neighbors from Hell page because it was talking about Ruby Gilman, naturally a series can't contain shout outs to project that was yet to be made when it came out. Is that what they are referencing maybe?

ilovewildkratts1 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-02-04 14:55:08

^^ They PMed me about the same thing, presumably because you and I have been reverting edits of theirs. But I removed a Shout-Out entry on the main Ruby Gillman page.

I told them I had removed their entry because the way it's worded seemed more like a list of coincidences and less like actual shout-outs, and because there were numerous English errors within the entry itself.

Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
gjjones Since: Jul, 2016
2024-02-04 14:58:08

For what it's worth, there's also a Fact Checking Thread.

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