Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-31763506-20190504042018/@comment-27713488-20190510120845

DukeLeto7 wrote: the major portion of Bron Handa's edit to the Timeline page was to add links to the various pages he has made on individual races. The CLEAR intention here is to make an end run around the admin team and the other editors' express instructions not to break up the races page by systematically redirecting links on other articles to his individual race articles, canonizing his new articles de facto. This was such an egregious act of bad faith on his part that I felt it merited an immediate action to make it clear to him that this behavior was unacceptable. I feel a little responsible for this, because I didn't address the split-up races pages when they first happened. I may have had a reason, like not having spare time immediately, but as the only active staff I should have fixed it before our rogue editor decided it was the new status quo and started editing other pages accordingly. Reconciling the little diverging evolutions the articles have made has proven an unduly fussy and tedious task, though, so I consider myself chastened for any laxness.

That said, I hope converting those pages to redirects and protecting them from further editing is a clear enough signal to Bron Handa that the matter is closed, that there will not be split racial articles for the foreseeable future, and that trying to make it happen anyway constitutes edit warring and will get him blocked. it would be nice if Bron Handa's actions could be chalked up to misguided enthusiasm for improving the wiki, but he's shown a repeated pattern of arrogance and dismissiveness to other editors' contributions, see for example his repeated insults to Argenten during the debate on page quotes. This makes it a bit difficult to palette his complaints about my not valuing the effort he put into the edit. Bron Handa has clear prescriptive ideas about what he thinks the wiki should look like (basically an infinite proliferation of pages, apparently). He thinks we should operate by Wikipedia rules despite being told repeatedly that we work through discussion and building consensus instead of the more decentralized model.

My hope is that Bron Handa can learn to work with the rest of the community and make a more substantive set of contributions, but I'm frankly not optimistic. At least all that page categorization was nice to have. I'm not going to block him immediately over all this, though I suspect Wikipedia staff might not be so lenient. as to the secondary issue of multiple links per section in the Timeline page, this really is a "don't care" on my part. The duplicate links are an artifact my adding those links semi-programmatically. If Bron Handa wants to make another edit removing just the duplicate links, he can go nuts as far as I'm concerned. I'd prefer to have guidance from the community on whether this is a necessary stylistic change. I've also made it clear to Bron Handa that I can wipe out these links almost instantly should the determination be that this should be done, so his energy would be better directed elsewhere. IMHO, I feel it can be a bit distracting and unsightly to link to the same page more than once per paragraph, even in the Timeline page. While I'm not sure about doing it with pure regex, "apply regex to first match in each paragraph" seems like something that would be easy to script, if it's not already supported by your text editor of choice or plugin thereof. made several attempts to post this to Wiki Discussions, where it is more appropriate, and I suspect that only Admins can do so. My suspicion is that Wikia is buggin' again. Thread moved, anyway. attempted one version of this post to have Wikia eat it on session timeout. I recommend checking out the Firefox/Chrome extension Textarea Cache or something similar.