Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-29684190-20190728232427/@comment-4010415-20190730233854

73.Anon.52 wrote: EmBELLEm wrote:

VerBeeker wrote: “Qrow’s semblance is turning into a bird.” (OOokkaay. Concrete situations. We're getting somewhere.)

That's because we literally didn't know magic existed and that was a thing. This opened a new concept. We will try better in the future. … I don't feel that defense stands as I personally was among others saying we shouldn't assume it was and repeatedly had to ask WHY it was added for quite some time, especially when turning into a bird was so far from what other semblances do and are capable of.

It ultimately lasted only because for weeks I could get no response on why it was added thinking it might have been in a panel or event I missed and then for months following because Admins/mods wouldn't let it be removed without proof it wasn't true. ^^^^^^^^^

I was among the wiki staff members who voted against saying that turning into a bird was Qrow's Semblance. This issue was actually quite hotly debated by the staff, and one staff member in particular refused to budge and insisted that it remain on the articles, no matter what anyone else said. I know that staff member regrets it, and we're a lot more cautious about assuming things now because of that debacle.

Hence having Vernal's page say that she was the Spring Maiden even though the majority of staff believed in the theory that she was actually faking. Even though there was a high likelihood that the theory was right (and it was), we still didn't want to risk it and ended up adopting the policy of "We'll write down what the show is telling us, even if it seems likely that we're being misdirected", which is why Summer's page still says she's dead. We put Vernal down as the Spring Maiden and waited for the show to stop telling us that she was.