User blog comment:Joekido/This Wiki/@comment-53539-20140113182359/@comment-53539-20140115201404


 * I was kicked off Arlong Park Wiki because I was being stupid
 * I have some experiences with Wikipedia and stopped editing there because people were getting some information wrong and continued sticking to that information ( Like Ace being with Buggy during the mini-story)

Sadly even this wiki gets everything wrong ( like Koala being a boy or the express lobster being a shrimp. I came here to give wiki a helping hand and promote One Piece as a big project here in America.


 * If that was not the full story of what happened in Wikipedia then tell me what really happened
 * Your right, I may never meet people eye to eye.


 * 1) Are you acting any different here to how you acted on AP's wikia? They laughed at us for letting you stay here.  You've certainly done yourself no favours with this blog either.
 * 2) We walked from wikipedia from MUCH worst reasons, your point? Stop acting like you were part of the wikipedia crew because you don't know HALF of the hassle we had there.
 * 3) No wikia is perfect, heck, we're not the only place in the fandom getting things wrong. We rely on whats missed by 1 person to be picked up by another.  Yet despite a wikias faults, a wikia tends to be more reliant.  You're overall though, missing the point of a wikia - to act as a "quick-look up" for further research.  I.e. a wikia is merely a introduction or starting point for fans and readers.  If they want to see what something else is for themselves, our job is to supply, say the chapter reference, so they can do the reading and come up with their own conclusions.  Its those who come to different conclusions and re willing to come and correct or point them out, that we rely on, as their the next generation of editors.  This is how a wikia survives.
 * 4) Also One Piece is doing well enough overall anyway. Its one of the top Mangas coming out of Japan and was already that back i 2006... The reality is, if you added no contributions the series wouldn't be any different.  I know on the Vocaloid wikia I've got the "promote all the Vocaloids" stance, but we have 60 Vocaloids now and most fans know only 6 or 8 of them.  And its not my personnel rule, its that wikias rule. :-/
 * 5) No matter what I do, summarizing the events of wikipeida is not the same as experiencing them. Because a lot of the problems at wikipedia were policitcal problems, not One Piece directly.  For example, were FORCED to use "Zolo" because a rule at the time favorued localisations of anime/mangas, which lead to every single vote done on the name to result in "Zolo" no matter what. At the time, 4Kids still had the dubbing rights to the series and there was no sign they were giving it up.  To cut a long story short "the greater wikipedian community were dictating what each manga and anime series was doing - regardless or whether or not it was possible or fesiable for each and every series".  Things tended to work for small one-season series, but not the larger long-running series like Dragonball, Naruto or One Piece. :-/
 * 6) Not seeing eye to eye with folks is okay, but you've never displayed any "tact" about it. Sesh, when I was a reglaur a few times we had to draw a compromise between various editors POV, to save everyone being left feeling sore.  Sometimes it wasn't always possible - those issues were voted on by editors on the wikia, so that we certain that we had a strong support or against a particular idea before it was implemented or rejected. Out of the wikias I've been with, this wikia still is one of the more diplomatic one, and on going issues are resolved with reasonable fairness.