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Uggggh, this guy again?
Even without factoring in the complaining, speculating about the success or failure of merchandising, and the creators' motives in regards to it, seems totally inappropriate for not only a YMMV page but really the wiki in general.
The language he uses is not necessarily the most offensive, but he has a history of trying to couch what are extremely specific and personal opinions as widely held when as someone who also is in that fandom, I can confirm they're really not. And as an extremely vocal member of the show's Hatedomnote he's made cases for other entries such as this one as well as various unsourced speculation about the admitted-to-be-troubled without specifics how production within the forum threads that I've had to shoot down for this reason.
Wait, so there's actual homophobia instead of just shipping drama? That's even more totally inappropriate for the wiki.
It's more in the vein of multiple forum comments about not wanting the show (or others) to have gay characters because it promotes toxic masculinity, which has gotten other people to report him for it, but doesn't affect wiki entries aside from some very incensed entries complaining about fans headcanoning certain characters as queer.
In fairness one of the cases is legitimately iffy as it's mostly spread by other shippers being fanatical, and that particular character is only ever shown as strictly being interested in women, and barely paying attention to any men (aside from one Ho Yay scene with a totally different character from the one he's usually shipped with, and one whom they hate), but the other character is not strongly indicated to have a sexual orientation of any kind, so to single out gay headcanons as particularly delusional is hypocritical, considering his anger at the show for not going with the Recurring Element of pairing him and the princess together.
Edited by AlleyOop
Hmm. We'll have a chat.
Beatman 1 has been doing a lot of edits over the past for the Voltron: Legendary Defender page that speculate the intent of why things happen, or add negative weasel words to otherwise unremarkable information, in order to turn it more negative-sounding. For example bringing up that the lack of merchandise is likely due to the creators' personal hatred of the mecha genre, that certain lines of products were possibly poorly received, or canceled due to fan outrage (when poor sales or company mergers and layoffs are as likely of a cause and actually have received press coverage at the time; even so, that constitutes being too speculative to add in itself, and another user who made similar types of entries recently got suspended here and on other pages for blatantly violating the rules), despite no official indications otherwise.
I feel that, due to the notorious amounts of Epileptic Trees regarding this franchise and its creators' intent (of which I have plenty, but which I don't believe is my place to add them), that without some kind of official confirmation as to the motives of company actions, it crosses the boundary into speculative troping since it reads creator intent and malice into a page that is supposed to about recording audience reactions, and thus requires some measure of impartiality, despite the name.
I've had to do a lot of cleanup regarding his edits for negativity bias and it's getting very tiring as he rarely adds anything strictly informative enough to leave alone, and has already had a history of excess negativity towards the series to the point of thumps on the forums, and has been found to have engaged in unsolicited harassment of fans of the work on other social media.
I mentioned in the past about a tendency of his to use the page as a soapbox for his Single-Issue Wonk with the show, as well as bring it up in threads and pages for unrelated works, even bringing up arguments from people he's otherwise violently opposed to due to his vocal hatred of their taste for same-sex shipping in order to bash it, but I don't think it's safe for me to PM him knowing this now for fear of inviting said harassment onto myself.
Edited by AlleyOop