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mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-07-09 12:10:17

With apologies to NubianSatyress for piggybacking this request onto this thread, could a mod please revert YMMV.South Park to before OneWithTheArt72's edit of 6 July? The vast majority of the changes they made are either violating the "first come, first served" rule for American and Commonwealth Spellings, Oxford commas, and the like, or are outright incorrect. There are simply too many to revert manually. (I can re-add speedyboris' example from the only edit made to the page since then.)

As for TotalDramaRox97, it's perhaps worth pointing out that they were suspended once before for the perception that they were editing with an agenda.

Edited by mlsmithca
Tharkun140 Since: Apr, 2016
2019-07-09 12:13:53

If their agenda drives them to break the rules, someone should probably talk to them. We should make it clear though that the problem is specifically breaking those rules, not the reasons for breaking them. Their examples are equally valid or invalid regardless of whatever agenda they have.

^ Well that's certainly worrying. We might have a candidate for a ban here.

Edited by Tharkun140 Apathy is Death. Worse than Death, because at least a rotting corpse feeds beasts and insects.
NubianSatyress Since: Mar, 2016
2019-07-09 12:39:33

"Their examples are equally valid or invalid regardless of whatever agenda they have."

That is not how I understand it to work. Editing with an overt political agenda has been repeatedly stated to be against the rules of the wiki. A political agenda, by definition, creates inaccurate entries because of the inherent bias.

EDIT: Worth noting is that every single one of the edits I listed is from after their suspension was released.

Edited by NubianSatyress
miraculous (Apprentice)
2019-07-09 12:57:07

Well they clearly didn't listen then.

"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."
mlsmithca (Edited uphill both ways)
2019-07-09 13:44:03

^ Thanks much... although unfortunately I can't pinpoint where speedyboris' edit went now (I should have made a note of it before asking for the revert). I'll have to PM them.

And regarding OneWithTheArt72, I just went through the main trope pages for WesternAnimation.South Park, and they made a plethora of edits changing Commonwealth spellings to American spellings and deleting Oxford commas on those as well; I've reverted as many as I could find. (On a less serious note, they also universally changed "Wall-Mart" to "Wal-Mart" - including inside a Bland-Name Product pothole.) Is there a suitable notifier for that sort of edit?

Edited by mlsmithca
NubianSatyress Since: Mar, 2016
2019-07-09 14:15:11

Since mod action has been taken, I'll clean up some of their most blatant edits as soon as I have a free hour or two.

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