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i recall having to clean up a mess ThoughtComplex left on an article, but it might be too long ago to still be in my edit history. ill see if i can track it down, but i can at least verify that they have a history of problematic behavior.
Edited by razorrozar7 Migrated to Chloe Jessica!found it
. it was a relatively minor thing, confusion over "its" vs "it's", but it was still a significant mess to clean up. (also i mistakenly said his name was ThoughtPower in my edit reason because i am a derp)
They also added two Ensemble Dark Horse entries under Jonathan Hickman's X-Men that I cannot find any support for beyond 1 reddit post, 1 forum post here and 2 tweets. I think they seriously have a problem with using YMMV to project, especially because they mention Rasputin being sexy as part of her appeal, which they also mentioned under the characters page when they added Ms. Fanservice.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian

ThoughtComplex
has been leaving work for others to clean up. They often misuse tropes, most commonly on Jonathan Hickman's X-Men when it was created, when they were seemingly throwing anything on the page to fill it, which left work to clean up — they also engaged in speculative troping
, which had the same effect. When an entry they added was removed
, they re-added it under another trope
, obviously without checking that it was correct the second time.
They misused more tropes on the Jonathan Hickman's X-Men page that they created — which in and of itself is odd as the X-Men character pages are pretty neatly sorted for the most part, with individual works' character sheets usually linking to the main X-Men character sheet or the character's page at best — such as applying Ms. Fanservice to any female character that was drawn as attractive (which is the majority with one artist's style), even citing Male Gaze that doesn't exist.
They also used Dawn Of X as a place to vent, such as being insulted at the very IDEA of the X-Men sharing space with another franchise, which I changed when moving it to Jonathan Hickman's X-Men — they were also putting examples on the wrong pages for a while. They also added Soft Reboot on Jonathan Hickman's X-Men and said that a work was ignoring the 2010s comics — which they very clearly dislike — and referring to them in Broad Strokes... when the work was one issue old and referred to EVERYTHING in broad strokes because it's a first issue. They did the same on the trivia page.
Finally, they were massively misquoting creators to further their own speculation and project their own opinions as that of the creators. They said
Dawn of X was said to be tied to the X-Men in the MCU, which Hickman specifically said
his work wasn't. They said Hickman said
he hated the 2010s X-Men stories, which he makes no mention of based on a Google search.
It's been going on for a while but it seemed like it died down, but seemingly hasn't. Hopefully the links to specific edits works better for you guys, because I wanted to find specific examples because they edit these pages a lot.
Edited by FuzzyBarbarian