User blog comment:Solomus-BlackWing/Grim dark wiki/@comment-3055683-20120624221847

I stand by Montonius on this issue. Started your own wiki because you don't agree with the harsh methods of moderation that were incorporated in the past, sure...I get it. But arbitrarily stealing content and passing it off as your own. Very immature, despicable and downright unethical. I understand if you want to make a point, and by all means, go ahead and create your own wiki and run it as you see fit. I welcome the competition. But come on, siphoning off over two years worth of work by hundred of contributors and not even attempting to change the format, that's low. The grimdark wiki's methods of sending a message to the mods on this wiki was, in my humble opinion, an act of immaturity and utterly unprofessional. It was no better than when contributors used to blatantly copy an entire article, word-for-word from the Lexicanum and paste it on this wiki. Thank goodness, we've come quite a long way from those days! But you know, we're just as human and prone to making mistakes as anyone else!

The main reason for the harsh bans in the first place was that our lead mods we're tire of having to constantly walk new editors by-the-hand on how to use this wiki, post new content, and use the proper format, grammar, ect. without even bothering to read the 'Manual of Style' and wiki rules that are clearly posted on the main page. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've logged in and seen one of our main articles totally rewritten, reformatted and basically, totally screwed up and tore up, from the floor up! It gets very old having to constantly explain, again and again, why things are done a certain way, to those who think they know better than you, how to run your own wiki! Can you understand where we're coming from? Being banned without warning...sure, it was harsh. But understand, we have certain professional standards that we are attempting to maintain on this wiki to make it a well-established and comprehensive source of all things 40K.

First and foremost, we do this wiki for fun! Much of our own personal time is put in doing research, writing and adding a new article. Combined with having to go over every new edit and article that is seen on this wiki is a monumental undertaking, in and of itself! Let me reiterate what Montonius said, if you don't like how things are done here, then go to the Lexicanum - the oldest, and most well-known 40K resource on the internet. We think our editing and moderation is draconion, try posting an article on there sometime and see how strict they are in regards to posting new content, adding citations, sources and page numbers. That's one of the reasons I came over to this wiki in the first place!

But hey, if you think you know better than we do, by all means, start your own wiki and build it from the ground up. Make it your own, and incorporate new ideas and new methods. I have no problem with competition. Just don't go and steal content from one wiki and source it out and cut-and-paste it into a new wiki page. Two years ago, this wiki was considered a joke. You couldn't even mention it with a straight face when someone talked about it on one of the 40K blogs! So yeah, I get a tad defensive and highly offended when someone takes all the hard work that has been done by the contributors and mods on this wiki, to turn it around and make it what it is today and blatantly steals our content, just to be vindictive towards the lead mod, because they don't agree with his methods! Grow up, people!

'Nuff said!