Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-189.217.47.59-20161206085118/@comment-4010415-20161207033734

It does come down to a few different things that can vary from person to person, as you can see by the posts above me.

As for complaints about how the wiki is currently...

Yes, we do tend to undo edits from new users and anons, but that is often because they are types of edits that the people who stick around here know not to do. They're often edits like


 * Spoilers - We have a spoiler policy. Despite what was said above, we didn't block for 1 day, we blocked for 2 hours. Even after Rooster Teeth changed the Sponsor/FIRST membership schedule to be 24 hours before public instead of 2 hours, wiki staff voted to keep the block down to 2 hours, in case someone posted spoilers just a few hours before public release, for fairness sake. As was stated above, we now simply undo the spoiler edit/delete the spoiler post and warn the user that we have a Spoiler Policy. After all, oftentimes the people who post spoilers here aren't aware that there is a Spoiler Policy. The policy is pretty much that we don't allow info from the new episode until it is available for people who have a free, normal Rooster Teeth account. This includes content that was intended to be exclusively shared with people who were physically present at a convention panel, like the RTX version of the Volume 4 Character Short.
 * Speculation - We've tried very hard to keep speculation in the articles to a minimum, as stated above.
 * Not in the right page or section, such as adding something to a character's Personality section when it would be better suited on their History page or in a section on their Affiliation page
 * Certain types of trivia.
 * For example, we don't like to do "This is the first" trivia, since there's a first time for everything, and if we include that type of trivia, it would quickly fill up the trivia sections on many pages and become a mess.
 * We also don't like to do trivia that states something like "In this episode, it is revealed that..." That probably fits more in the episode page's summary than in the trivia section.
 * We refrain from doing trivia that says things like "At (such and such time) in the episode, the music is the tune for (such and such song)" because RWBY does that a lot. So, much like the "This is the first" trivia, that would fill up the trivia sections really quickly. Jeff Williams and his buddies like to make use of leit motifs for characters (Red Like Roses tune playing for Ruby, Mirror Mirror and Mirror Mirror Part 2 tunes playing for Weiss, etc) and even use tunes from the opening songs during scenes that fit the theme of what the opening song is talking about. Volume 2 has instances of Time to Say Goodbye, volume 3 had When It Falls in the beginning of Battle of Beacon, and volume 4 has already had Let's Just Live.

We try to remind people, especially staff, to include an edit summary, explaining why we undid someone's edit, but unfortunately, some people forget or are in too much of a hurry to do it.

We encourage people to discuss disagreements over edits either in the page's comment section or on someone's wall, so that way all parties can come to an understanding and maybe even work out an agreement or compromise. Large edits that make a significant change to the page and edits to templates should be discussed before being done, to make sure that other people are on board with the idea. Members of wiki staff even tend to make posts, asking what the rest of the wiki userbase thinks of an idea.

By the way, the "Yang's status = disarmed" thing... That wasn't done by the wiki staff or the regular users. That was done by a countless number of people popping onto the wiki just to do that and then leaving. And since edits to certain templates don't show up on the Wiki Activity log, we sometimes don't notice. I think an admin actually ended up locking Yang's template so that no one could change her status back to "disarmed". We try our best.

The "fan names"... These days, when we have to use a placeholder name for a page, we just name it something that merely describes who or what it is. We don't know what the Grimm Dragon from volume 3 is named, but its concept art says "Grimm Dragon", so we named the page Dragon. We don't know what the sea dragon serpent leviathan thing in Of Runaways and Stowaways is called, so we just call it what it is - a Sea Dragon, a dragon that lives in the sea. If we hadn't caught that the concept art for that floating jellyfish Grimm calls it a Seer, we would've named the Seer page something like Jellyfish Grimm.

As for theory discussion on the forum... We tend to have fun discussing and analyzing each other's theories, looking for holes and weak evidence, and pointing out anything that disproves the theory that the other person may have forgotten or not thought of. We don't really see it as offensive because we do it to each other's theories, and when we post our own theories up, we fully expect others to do it because the purpose is to see what everyone else thinks about whether or not it could be canon.

Some people, meanwhile, come here to post a theory... just to share their theory. They don't expect anyone to analyze it and go "Well, actually, this part isn't very strong evidence in favor of your theory, and this thing from the show disproves that part." Some see it as an attack and some just aren't sure how to react. If someone wants to post random, out-there, not quite supported theories for fun without worrying about the possible canonicity of it, then the wiki forum may not be the place for them, but I'm sure that there's somewhere out there that they can do that.