User blog:The S/In Absentia

I apologize for not being around as much as I have in the past; I've been hard at work on Battle High 2 and a few other side projects. As it's now early November and we want BH2 out by the end of the year, it's taking up a bulk of my time.

Anyway, it's come to my attention that the multiple page scheme that we've been rolling out over the past few months is not a hit with everyone, despite the lack of objections previously.

This structure was introduced in June 2010 by the user TheSkeletonMan939. He began a testbed with the Leonardo articles, and it never really grew from there. I sort of liked the idea but was not fond of how much work it would take.

2012 came around, and due to boredom as well as a much larger editor base, I decided to ask around and see if it was a worthwhile project to undertake. It seemed fine with those that were around the most, and since there were so many new incarnations of the series that the old manual of style was beginning to show its age, I began making more testbeds. Others liked this idea and followed suit.

It seems to me, however, that a majority of the detractors are new editors, and the terrible part of this, is they come in and just start rolling back and deleting/redirecting pages. This is a no-no, guys. Why would you come in and start making such massive changes to something you're not familiar with, without even asking around? If you don't like it, discuss it, and try to not revert to some bizarre strawman argument.

I'm not some overlording monster here. I'm not even the head admin, just an admin. I'm reasonable, just as an admin should be. I only took charge in changing things because, well, I'm the admin that's been here the most over the past couple of years, and things needed a bit of restructure. It just bothers me when someone comes out of the woodwork to revert/mass edit another's work - mine or anyone else's, because lawlz i like it this way better. It's equivalent to walking into a store or church and starting to just randomly redecorate things - yeah, it's a semi-public place, but you shouldn't just start throwing stuff out.

To get to the bottom of things, I'd like to know why this structure is so abhorrent. The same structure is used by the two other major comic Wikis, as seen here and here. This is structurally safe as well as a way to let anyone contribute new incarnations without having to learn loads of Wiki markup (as in-article tabs would).

Please, feel free to discuss and debate. Just, y'know... don't be jerks about it.