All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XIV

[GethN7]

Is this a valid deletion for a YMMV page? I don't know the subject matter well enough, and the edit summary gives me reason to pause.

I thought Geth and Doc had an agreement he would be allowed to do what he wanted per CM on the Wikia, while acknowledging the Miraheze CM situation was not going to change to his whims per consensus.

I know Geth is ill right now, so IDK if we will have to wait.

The person involved makes things awkward, yes. Set aside who made the edit and look at the edit itself - if I had made that edit and given that reason, would you be reverting it?

I think that's the problem - if it was a new user I would revert, if it was a crat like you, LT or Geth; i'd just figure you were working on the page yourself and cleaning it up. I'm not an expert on CM or any trope tbh.

I'm slowly regaining my strength at the moment, but I can clarify, for once, this "rules" business has a point.

Tv Tropes originally had very few to none for the trope, and it became an utter free-for-all of edit warring by lunatics who take this crap way too seriously. Wikia is where most of these people continue the e-bloodshed when they got kicked off TV Tropes. I originally hired Doc on Wikia because they were happy to enforce some boundaries to keep the e-warring in check on our Wikia branch, and while it got a lot of noses out of joint, it ameliorated a problem that forced TV Tropes to apply rules to a normally subjective trope to cut down on the sheer malicious autistic slapfights.

To this day, TV Tropes is still known for cutting down the weeds on this topic by fencing in this subjective topic with some boundaries just to keep the problem contained, and us doing the same thing just keeps this lightning in it's bottle, the alternative is far worse.

Ergo, gentlemen, this is valid insofar as it keeps a far worse problem from arising in it's abscence.

P.S. - I of course am not pleased when Doc exceeded their mandate outside of this scope and hence they lost their ATT Miraheze mod bit as a result, but I did, however, appreciate how they brought a lot of order to what had once been a source of great chaos, and for once, TV Tropes has a policy that is worth emulating if only for reasons of keeping some sanity.