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Final warning

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The King of the Monsters (talkcontribs)

You are clearly not listening to any feedback I have been giving you about your edits. I continue to need to comb through dozens of your edits to undo your attempts to standardize things sitewide without consulting anyone and oftentimes after being told not to do so. None of your edits consist of actually adding information, they are entirely just changing formatting and wording of things, often without any logical reason. You have admitted that you were banned from Wikipedia before, and if you did the same things there that you do here I can see why. This is your last warning. The next time I see you mass-change something you have specifically been warned not to change, you will be blocked.

Daimajin1966 (talkcontribs)

What's wrong with putting in a reference to the subject of the IDW version of Monster Island/the Monster Islands? That way people can look it up easily wherever they go. I don't see why you're making such a big stink about nothing. Why, when I put qoutes on all the IDW and Dark Horse comics' descriptions, do you accept it, and then complain about something as minor as this? Believe me, no one cares but you. I think this is obviously a perfect case of the pot calling the kettle black. It specifically says on the main page if anything needs fixing, you can fix it. As I said, all I was doing was placing a reference to a subject in the IDW Comics' mainstream Godzilla story line wherever it was needed in the three series. Why do I have to ask permission for that - or anything else, for that matter? Please, give me one good reason why I'm wrong here. I've done references before since the last warning you gave me and you never said anything until now. In fact, did you even look at what the references were before you deleted them/ Next time, please ask first before jumping to conclusions. I say what I did was a help, not a hinderance.

Btw, the Minette and Mallory reference in Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters is called "Minette and Mallorie" every time it's listed (I didn't do this; it was already there, so please, blame the person who screwed it up instead of me), so I changed it to refer to the right spelling so it wouldn't have to redirect all the time. You're welcome.

The King of the Monsters (talkcontribs)

If you pay attention, you'd notice that I do not undo any edits you make that are approved changes or simple grammar/syntax fixes. However, you tend to edit dozens of pages at once and make countless unapproved changes that you have been repeatedly warned to stop making, that other staff and I are forced to parse through. For instance, I have told you to stop adding "the" in front of entries on bulleted lists countless times, yet you continue to do it. If you unilaterally decide you want to change something on every single page on the site, you should probably run it by staff first before doing it and then throwing a fit when I undo it. Your flippant attitude about my warnings is not helping your case either.

Daimajin1966 (talkcontribs)

What about the Monster Island/Monster Islands references? They're not wrong. Can I please put them back, or is that verbotten, too?

The King of the Monsters (talkcontribs)

There is no reason to link to a specific section on the Monster Island page on all of the IDW comic pages. It would be like having [[Godzilla#IDW Comics|Godzilla]] on those pages as well.

Les (talkcontribs)

You've been given about twenty final chances already, but the next time you arbitrarily change the spelling or capitalization of every instance of something on a page without asking anybody, you're getting banned for real. It's getting beyond ridiculous.

Daimajin1966 (talkcontribs)

I did what I did because, in a scientific name, specific names aren't capitalized, only generic names. Everyone with even a modicum of scientific knowledge knows this. Properly speaking, it's T-rex and V-rex; no capital "R". And another thing: it was a "family group of three V-rexes", so why change that? No one in the scientific world calls a young animal a "youth", it would be a "young one" (the term "youth" is only used for people), Skull Island reptiles#Unnamed carnivore is capitalized because that's the way it is in the list itself (just look it up and you'll see it is) and what's wrong with "the official tie-in game to the 2005 film"? One wouldn't know that by looking at it the way it's written now.

Besides, there's a few examples of the name V-rex in that same article that aren't spelled with a capital "R". They're in Books (King Kong (2005)) and Comics (King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World). Does this mean they have to be changed, too? Btw, these two sections do V-rex correctly and everything else in this article doesn't. That's why I did all this.

And btw, where exactly does it say in the rules of this website that one has to ask someone in charge to do what was done here? Please show me this, as I feel like I'm back in high school again and I have to ask for a hall pass just to go to the bathroom. I also honestly feel like I'm being singled out for no particular reason other than the sake of doing so. I feel this isn't fair and that I'm doing no harm to anyone, not even you guys. If anyone else did this, I'll bet anything you'd let them do it. This whole thing, I think, is a obvious case of nit-picking, nothing more.

Les (talkcontribs)
I did what I did because, in a scientific name, specific names aren't capitalized, only generic names. Everyone with even a modicum of scientific knowledge knows this. Properly speaking, it's T-rex and V-rex; no capital "R".

This is simply not true. If you had a "modicum" of scientific knowledge, you'd know the abbreviated form of Tyrannosaurus rex is "T. rex" with a period and lower-case R. "T-Rex" is common parlance that doesn't strictly follow binomial naming conventions, so the R is often capitalized. It's even written that way in the Wikipedia article for the species. You could confirm this if you took two seconds to Google it, but you would rather sass me and flaunt your bloated sense of self-importance. Not to mention that we're talking about a fictional dinosaur, whose name should be dictated by the people that created it. There are quotes in the article where it is clearly spelled "V-Rex."

And another thing: it was a "family group of three V-rexes", so why change that? No one in the scientific world calls a young animal a "youth", it would be a "young one" (the term "youth" is only used for people), Skull Island reptiles#Unnamed carnivore is capitalized because that's the way it is in the list itself (just look it up and you'll see it is) and what's wrong with "the official tie-in game to the 2005 film"? One wouldn't know that by looking at it the way it's written now.

When you click the "rollback" button, it reverses the whole burst of changes made by a person. When you publish tens of edits in a row, over half of them entirely useless and arbitrary, it is far easier to just roll the whole thing back and start from scratch.

Besides, there's a few examples of the name V-rex in that same article that aren't spelled with a capital "R". They're in Books (King Kong (2005)) and Comics (King Kong: The 8th Wonder of the World). Does this mean they have to be changed, too?

...yes. I don't know why on Earth you would come to the conclusion that the way it's spelled the minority of times is the way it should be on the entire article. It being capitalized inconsistently is an error, but your solution was to come to a wild conclusion about how it ought to be written that isn't even accurate to the way the filmmakers stylize it.

And btw, where exactly does it say in the rules of this website that one has to ask someone in charge to do what was done here?

I think these two policies describe the situation pretty well:

  • Wikizilla:Civility - "Civility is a standard of conduct that editors should follow. In short, it means treat people politely and with respect even if you are disagreeing with them. [...] Uncivil behavior consists of any behavior designed or intended to create stress or conflict. [...] Disruptive editing is closely related to not being civil, although it is possible to edit tendentiously without being uncivil."
  • Wikizilla:Edit warring - "Situations will inevitably arise where editors have differing views about some aspect of a page's content. When this happens, editors are strongly encouraged to engage in civil discussion to reach a consensus, and not to try to force their own position by combative editing[.]"

Our job as moderators is to maintain the site's pages and reverse edits that are harmful or unhelpful. When you repeatedly make these types of edits that you are told time and time again not to, refuse to fact-check anything you add or change and then end up apologizing for not knowing, and get mouthy with us when we tell you that punishments will be levied against you, there doesn't need to be one rule to spell out that that's a problem. You can protest all you'd like, but I'm telling you the next time it happens, you're out of here.

Daimajin1966 (talkcontribs)

Then if if I'm not wanted here, please delete my username and account effective immediately and I'll go away and never come back, if that's what you'd like.

Les (talkcontribs)

What I'd like is for you to make constructive edits that consist of more than pedantically changing spelling and grammar in a bid to make everything sound more "distinguished." If you have actual content to add to the pages, then be my guest. Attitude aside, I have no problem with you personally, I have a problem with the way you engage with the site.