Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-189.217.47.59-20161206085118/@comment-26397825-20161206091714

As far as I know, once upon a time a lot of shit went down on this wiki. But that was years ago when it was new and the people involved have all left or been banned.

So they're basing their opinion off how the wiki was about 3 years ago. Nowadays we try very hard to be welcoming; anonymous edits are welcomed (I know of at least 3 anonymous users who consistently add stuff to articles which is all kept, though sometimes the grammar is fixed or edited to be present tense where appropriate), the staff has reduced the use of the block function (it used to be that posting spoilers was an instant ban for a day, but now users get warning about making spoiler edits), and we actually have Forum Moderators who are consistently active now (both of which were installed in the past year).

We also cull any headcannons and only put confirmed references, trivia, and names in articles, keeping fan-made names (such as Puppet Master for Penny's Weapons) out of articles, whereas it used to be that weapons and characters would often be named by fans for their articles (Apricot for Nora, Crimson for Cinder, Jade Dragons for Ren's StormFlower, and they were the names of the articles).

The wiki now is a vastly different place, but because of the way people used to act and how information and the articles were handled in the very beginning, we have a bad name out in the rest of the FNDM. We have been working on repairing this bad image, but it's hard to do when they refuse to come to the wiki and see the changes that have been made around here.