User blog:ZeroExalted/OFFICIAL

The Combat Arms Wiki is a community of dedicated editors, each with a unique skill-set, attitude, and style.

A good edit to one person may look like a horrible edit to another. A good ban by one staff member may seem like an injustice to another. In this most recent incident, one Wikian went on a spree of edits which added incorrect categories to pages. When this was seen by a staff member, they applied the shortest ban possible in order to put a quick stop to this. This staff member then extended the ban for another hour before logging off. The staff member was outraged that the editor was making a quick series of incorrect edits, while the editor was outraged that the staff member extended her ban unnecessarily. Both sides did wrong, and both sides did right, but what tied these acts together was their passion for the wiki. One saw herself as adding information to the wiki in order to enlighten readers, while the other saw himself as upholding the law of the land. Both saw themselves unjustly attacked. Wrongs were committed, but; none that require such harsh and decisive action such as a proposition, tearing the wiki in half, to remove the staff member in question from their position; none that require people to engage in malicious and coercive voting practices; none that require cronyism. The Combat Arms Wiki is a community, but rather than discussing this issue, sorting it out peacefully, and both sides admitting their faults, you have decided to take up arms and try to destroy each other over it. You have decided to tear the community in half and force them to pick sides. You have decided to monitor every little thing that the other has done, and twist it into something bad. The Wiki is no more than the sum of its members - if its members are destroyed, the Wiki is destroyed. EpaX is an amazing moderator, the best that the Wiki has ever had – friendship is not a requirement for the job. Comrade is a dedicated editor, with a great number of edits under her banner – a primary contributor to the GIFing initiative. These two Wikians should be working together, not tearing each other apart. Therefore, with the powers invested in me as a Bureaucratic of the Combat Arms Wiki, I hereby veto the 28-5-2013 Resolution designed to remove EpaX’s status as moderator.