Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-4839682-20131031001247/@comment-4975807-20131031052102

To Arctucrus,

I am the admin guilty of deleting your Marilyn Manson page. I did it for the wrong reasons as I know now, but in the heat of the moment, I deleted it through influence of my own mood. I do regret deleting it because did so for all the wrong reasons. What I remember is looking at the page andseeing very marginal and tiny errors, which could have been easily fixed with a simple edit, but in that period, I felt not in the mood for re-editing and correcting them. It stressed me out to even think of just leaving the page on the wiki so I did the quickest thing I could think of, which was to delete the page entirely.

I think my problem is this unnatural quest for perfection. Basically, I want the wiki to look good with zero errors. And in the past, I know I've been hard on people who have tried to edit or help out with pages and basically undo or delete their edits if I felt it was not what I perceived to be good enough. But, I am trying to change with the recognition that 1) users are only trying to help build information to the wiki, and also 2) I can't expect things to look perfect when other people edit because I know in my own edits, I've definitely made mistakes or done things that needed to be recorrected or revised. I'm not perfect, so why should I assume other people must be, too?

Therefore, I apologize if I have judged anyone harshly for any of their edits or additions to the wiki.

Also, I admit I rarely ever tried to contact or let a user know the reason behind why I undid/deleted their edit unless the user personally wrote to me on my own wall. Now, I try harder not to undo or delete a person's edit unless it clearly violates the wiki policies or it's vandalism. In either case, right now, I do write on the user's wall to let them know and such.

However, my only real problem is with users, who I've redirected in wall messages, to read the wiki policies if their edits did not follow the necessary criteria, and basically, I get ignored when the user continues to make the same unnecessary edits. Typically, if this happens, the person gets blocked, but I wonder if there's some other fashion to better get through to the user.

 I know you talked a lot about the forums and how things have been going on there, which is not really my turf as an admin. I'm barely active on the forums and might comment once or twice if something piques my temporary interest, but that's about it. My sense is that forum threads can quickly become inflammatory or cross into the tensions because it's quite easy with a keyboard and a click of the reply button.

 As for the messaging system on wiki, it's true we don't have private messages. Even contacting someone on their profile and leaving a message makes it public once it shows up in the recent activity. I understand for personal matters, it might not be in the best interest of the person's privacy to let the written message be seen publicly.