Thread:Bron Handa/@comment-31763506-20190503045159/@comment-27713488-20190510124055

For the most part, I think this discussion is better continued in the forum thread, but let me make one point. Bron Handa wrote: That's weird. I didn't know you could own a page on a wiki. I thought the whole point of wiki was to collect knowledge and work from multiple sources to better help teach the masses instead of a single autocrat deciding what content is worth viewing. This is true, kind of. Under the CC-BY-SA license used by most of Wikia, including this wiki, Leto doesn't retain control of any work he submits.

However, on a wiki like this - regular updates required, small contributor base - the way most pages stay anywhere close to current is for individual contributors to "adopt" a page as "their page" which they keep updated, rather than trying to update the whole wiki and burning out or just contributing haphazardly. It is reasonable for someone who has "adopted" a page to think of it as theirs, so long as they maintain recognition that it really belongs to the community and bend to consensus if something comes to a dispute.

The timeline page is such a case. In fact, adoption is an inadequate metaphor because the very conception of such a page was Leto's brainchild, not an orphan he just started taking care of.

In this light, nitpicking over Leto's use of a possessive adjective just comes off as a snotty way to deflect blame for an ill-considered and ill-executed edit.