User blog comment:Nice Things/An Open Letter to Main/@comment-4403232-20140426104055

As I've stated previously to users, this wiki itself bears no ill will towards the fanon wiki. In fact, attacks on other wikis, including the fanon, are prohibited in the rules. Some users here may hold ill intentions, but that is beyond anyone's control. The Fanon wiki is still listed as an affiliated wiki, and if there were any official hatred or ill will, we would not have it still be listed there. However, we here cannot control the actions of members here on the fanon. If a user here goes over and causes issues, the user needs to be dealt with accordingly by the fanon administration. Unless a user here is either publicly recruiting users in the main chat, or via a blog or similar methods, administration here has no involvement in the issue.

However, I feel that certain members of the fanon wiki staff need to make some changes if better relations are to occur. I have been treated extremely rudely by some of the staff there, and have witnessed myself and the rest of the RWBY Wiki staff be blamed for several issues on the fanon. As I have stated above, the staff here does NOT condone attacks towards other wiki. We however cannot be held responsible for the actions of anyone who visits this wiki once they leave, just as we do not hold the fanon responsible for outside actions of their users.

If users want better relations, here is what I recommend doing:

1) I have noticed a "We aren't the main wiki" attitude in the fanon before. If you have a community basing itself around not being something else, it will hinder them growing their own unique personality, and will only encourage further issues. This is NOT anyone's fault, and the solution is NOT to go "Oh well User C here started it". The best way to combat that would be for staff there to act as role models in creating a wiki identity of their own.

2) Stop blaming the actions of a few on the many. I've seen cases on several sides where users blame the actions of a few problematic users on the entire wiki, or hold said wiki to an unrealistic level of responsibility. If User A goes over to the RWBY Fanon Wiki and causes an issue, the issue is with User A and is for the fanon to deal with appropriately. If User B goes over to the RWBY wiki and causes an issue, it is for us to deal with. The only case where BOTH wikis should be involved in the issue, is if User A or B is advertising/recruiting the plan on their "home" wikis, in which case they get dealt with appropriately there as well.

3) This one will be the most controversial and I ask that people do not discuss how to solve this point here, but I personally feel that the actions and behaviors of a few members of the Fanon Wiki's staff are hampering efforts of better relations between users. I will not be illustrating which actions by which members were incorrect, as that is ultimately the responsibility of the members Fanon wiki, and neither side has any place in imposing demands on the other. However, I strongly feel that if the users' actions and behaviors are corrected or dealt with properly, a large amount of issues will clear up naturally, leaving any remaining ones to be easily patched.

4) Users should be more willing to properly express concerns. Unfortunately I've seen instances where users have been threatened to not express issues in the past. While I hope that said instances are long in the past, the stigma from that might be still held by some people. This also speaks to an issue of conformity, where people go along with dislike that others hold towards others, even though they've never developed the dislike themselves. An interesting read on this issue is a short story titled "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson.