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Maybe Administrivia.Edit War might help?
He/His/Him. No matter who you are, always Be Yourself.
Their hostile reply and lack of interest in discussing the matter is indeed a red flag. “Don’t be a dick” is a cardinal rule on this site, and fair to bring up.
Suspended (from the wiki and PMs) and reverted.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
^ They added and re-added the same links in every subpage of Characters.Teen Titans (Characters.Teen Titans Original Teen Titans, Characters.Nightwing Dick Grayson, and so on), after I also removed them from those pages, so a lot of reverts are in order.
Trimming the hedges, one trope at a time.
This might be okay to do, but bringing it up just in case. They have a clear issue with ownership on their troper page, given that it contains a template for Teen Titan Characters prefaced with the following instructions: "Here's the general template of my Teen Titans Characters index. Do NOT edit it."
I did mod reverts for every other page due to how many pages they did this with. Some of the pages had edits from other editors, so go ahead and reinstate anything that got caught up in the mod reverts.
Edit: And I put a note on their file regarding potential ownership issues.
Edited by GastonRabbit Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Two more pages need mod reverts: Characters.Teen Titans Raven and Characters.Wonder Girl Cassie Sandsmark.
Trimming the hedges, one trope at a time.
^Done.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
I understand what I did wrong and in the future, I won't be so trigger-happy with the red links. As penance, could you please revert all the pages back, I'll add the addended Chars Index without the red links so that all the edits are at least kept without having to check how far back the revert was.
Now, I'm going to go on a bit of a tangent here. When you (Clancy) originally saw deleted the red links, you made no effort whatsoever to contact me at all, before you went and deleted them or after when I sent you a PM telling you to go check the Red Link page. This all could've been sorted out if you had tried to contact me at anytime after I sent you the PM.
Another thing is that when you initially deleted/reverted the red links, you forgot to see that one of the Red Links had been mainspaced (specifically, Teen Titans: Raven). This was something that I had to go fix (I know there's no like, responsibility or whatever but it should be expected that you don't straight up delete blue links).
Third, you made no attempt to contact me whatsoever that you had created an ATT entry. I only found out AFTER I got suspended, the fact that I STILL don't have a notification about the entry is super weird, especially considering I'm the other part involved in this edit war, I should be able to explain myself.
Teen Titans Original Teen Titans | Batgirl Bette Kane | Teen Titans
^ Why would I be obligated to immediately respond to your PM? I didn't feel like arguing with someone at the time, so I contacted you later. If anything, the time between should have meant you would have been more clear-headed than you were when you edit-warred, not more irritated like you said you were.
Also, the reason I brought this to ATT isn't because of our disagreement, it was because you edit warred, which is grounds for immediate suspension. There wouldn't be any point in "explaining yourself".
Trimming the hedges, one trope at a time.
Necroing this a week later just to complain was unnecessary. Locking.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.
Elio Herondale has been adding red links to Characters.Teen Titans and its subpages for character-specific pages — Characters.Teen Titans Lilith Clay, Characters.Teen Titans Mal Duncan, et cetera — since Jan 9th 2024
(as far as I know). On Feb 1st 2024
I deleted those red links, since all the characters for whom those red links were created have profiles in other pages — for example, Characters.Teen Titans Original Teen Titans for those two red links. ElioHerondale re-added those links that same day.
I left the matter alone until today, when I messaged them about their reasoning for creating character-specific pages for very short profiles, but they seem hostile and uninterested in discussing the matter. I can accept being in the wrong in this case, but since Elio Herondale added and then re-added those links, I think I should have reported this as an edit war much sooner.
(As an aside, is there a specific forum for reporting edit wars?)