Thread:Mechemik/@comment-44925288-20200205110219/@comment-44925288-20200208085752


 * sigh*

You seem to simply be reverting my edit to revert my edit. You are not upholding the standards expected by an admin and it really does feel like you are reverting me in a way that is an abuse of your power as an admin (admin tools or not the title holds weight).

If someone makes an edit that improves an article, you should not be reverting it simply because you do not personally like the edit. And you have not given any good reason as to why you reverted my edit besides it was “too wordy” or it was “good enough.” Those are not justifiable reasons to revert someone’s edit. You additionally rebutted my claims that the grammar needed improving yet made your own edits to try and fix it yourself, which in essence is an admission that you were wrong and the grammar did need to be fixed, though you failed to actually improve it.

So, here’s a summary of the events:

You claim that my edit was too wordy, which is ridiculous as the entry is only two sentences and my edit only added four words.

You then claimed that it made sense the way it was. However, I clearly demonstrated that it did not make sense grammatically speaking. You then proceeded to make your own edit (essentially admitting that you were wrong about it being correct the way it was). I then clearly explained why this edit was still wrong and you did not respond.

As such, I reverted it back to my original edit (which I've only done once when you didn't respond, though you claim "I keep trying to swap it to").

You once more revert my edit, and once again admit that it's still wrong by making your own edit, rather than using mine, which actually fixes the problem.

And by the way, your latest edit actually makes the article even worse, because it is now factually incorrect. You switched the order of the names, but not the order of the rest of the sentence (as I did in my edit), so now you are given factually incorrect information on the site. Definitely a justifiable reason for a revert.

However, you are clearly not interested in actually improving the article (as you have now made it even worse than it was before my edit), but simply want to have it your way.

I generally refrain from adding content to these fan Wikis, because this type of behavior often runs rampant and unchecked and I have neither the time nor inclination to get involved in petty squabbles with wiki editors on power trips. So instead I limit myself to fixing typos and grammar problems, as I have taught English at a university level, and thus am very well informed when I make edits. Sticking to that, I've never had this problem with any other editor in the 12 years that I have been working on wikis, as generally people who see my edits have a good enough grasp of the English language to intuitively tell that my edits have improved the wording, even if they don't explicitly understand the grammar rules behind it. I suppose there's a first for everything though.

If you think my claims are unfounded, then please provide a sufficient reason for reverting my edit besides "it was good enough already," especially when it clearly wasn't, given that you have attempted your own sloppy edits of the material since.

In the meantime, feel free to rule your little fiefdom in peace, as I won't be making further edits to this site.

I will be flagging this to the other admins, not because I expect anything to actually be done about it, nor for you to actually admit your mistakes or change your behavior, but rather in case someone else has this problem in the future, maybe others will notice a pattern.

You know it's interesting, I'm currently reading the end of The Last Wish, and you remind me a lot of Count Falwick. I'm not exactly sure why, I just get that same feeling. *shrugs*

Good day noble sir.