Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-9340689-20150930023544

I was originally going to post my complaint on a certain admin's wall, but then I checked and found he/she is not the only one guilty of this. I simply wish I had known this was happening sooner. By admins and regular users alike, I've found apparently you think you can do whatever you want to an article, without asking the author.

Including CHANGING THE WORDING, removing images created by the author, etc.

"Okay, so they replaced some words, what's the big deal?"

THAT'S HOW MY CHARACTER, THE NARRATOR, SPEAKS!!! I chose to say "vent" instead of "get" because that was my character's word choice. I chose to start the sentance with "fairly normal" instead of "a fairly normal"

IT WAS A STYLISTIC CHOICE, AND YOU CHANGED IT.

YOU CHANGED THE WRITING STYLE I CHOSE FOR THE CREEPYPASTAS I WROTE.

It also VIOLATES THE RULES



I understand wanting quality control, but you can't make changes without asking the author. It's extremely disrespectful, and according to the rules, IS VANDALISM.

That's like that time a while ago when someone had edited the Candle Cove article to fix spelling mistakes, only for Kris Straub himself to show up and inform everyone that they were on purpose.

Obviously the "by author" section doesn't really require permission since you're just stating who the author is, but the entrys themselves should not be altered without at least notifying the author.

It would take just a few seconds just to say, "Hey, I made this change, do you mind, or would you like to undo it?" on someone's talk page.

While I'm at it, you delete other creepypastas for being badly formatted, without altering them, because you can't just rewrite another person's creepypasta, but you can reformat the ones that are allowed to stay? Why?

And why don't you inform the author of why their creepypasta is being deleted? I admin other wikis, and I always take the time to tell users why they're being blocked. It takes just a few seconds (unless I'm seriously ticked at them, but even then it doesn't take long)

I'm sorry if I'm coming across as demanding, but the authors of creepypastas on this wiki trust you to preserve their stories AS THEY INTENDED IT.

Changing the creepypastas without informing the author is rude and disrespectful Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to fix the ones I can, seeing as some of the changes require rollback rights to undo due to SEVERAL BEING DONE IN A ROW

This should never have happened in the first place. 