Thread:Ace642/@comment-38854975-20190904035432/@comment-4010415-20190904225102

The wiki really did get kind of a rough start, and it has been changing and evolving over the years. We've been making efforts to learn from the issues and mistakes and try to do better. Lack of people really is a big issue.

We stopped doing fan names years ago, due to how the fan-made names could confuse people into thinking those are the actual names. Since then, we've found better ways of naming things and characters. For example, if the Seer's name hadn't been on a piece of concept art shown in an episode's credits, we would have named it Jellyfish Grimm, since it's a Grimm that's shaped like a jellyfish.

A more recent evolution in how we do things came from Vernal. The show itself kept telling us that Vernal was the Spring Maiden, even though it was highly likely that she was only pretending. Even most of the staff here felt that she was just pretending as a decoy, but we were afraid to put that on her page, just in case the fandom was wrong. As such, we continued to list her as the Spring Maiden, adopting a standpoint of "This is what the show is telling us, so even if we believe the show is misleading us, we will continue to write down what the show says." From there, we waited for the show to reveal the truth. This standpoint can also be applied to Summer Rose. There are many fans who believe she's not dead, but the show acts as though she is.

One issue is that most people don't really get to see what goes on in the staff Discord chat, and there are a lot of people who believe that we're just a group of like-minded people who collectively believe certain things. However, the staff does actually have disagreements and debates over things, and sometimes what you see being done was voted on. "Qrow's Semblance is turning into a crow" was a very hotly debated subject in the staff chat, and if I recall, we debated it several times, and it was removed and re-added to the wiki's articles multiple times due to staff disagreements. We try very hard not to let something like that ever happen again.

As for edits that get undone, they are very often just someone accidentally restating something that was already said earlier on the page, some kind of unnecessary fluff, highly speculative info, etc. But there have also been edits that people have made where they removed verified info, ignoring the fact that there's a citation linking to the source, and these people sometimes come back a second or third time to remove it again. One example is Ruby's age, and another example is the Yellow Trailer's opening quote being foreshadowing for Yang losing her arm. With the latter, it appears that we now have a secondary source from the upcoming companion guide, where Barbara explicitly states that Monty was the one who told her that in the first place. But yeah, I can only imagine that the people who keep removing that sourced info, only for us to add it back because it's info that CRWBY blatantly stated, have been getting frustrated with us because they didn't notice the citations and think we're just stubbornly adding headcanons or something.