Thread:Jackhorton98/@comment-37973629-20190818193422

Hello.

I decided that I’d contact you in person, given that I am the editor that you appear to have an issue with.

Please believe me when I say that I understand how frustrating it is when you’ve worked on an edit for a long time and then someone reverts it, seemingly without reason. It’s happened to me before, and I know that it’s incredibly irritating.

However, the comments that you made in the edit summary were uncalled for and the wrong way to solve a dispute, hence why another member of staff decided to block you. Instead, I would encourage you to contact me on my message wall to explain what your objections are when your edit has been undone, or otherwise explain why you think that your revision is better. Although you may find this unlikely in light of recent events, I can assure you that I will be happy to explain why your edit was undone and, if applicable, what the issues were with it.

As I am here now, I figure that I might as well do just that. Please don’t take it too personally. The main problem for me was the presence of borderline-true "sweeping statements” — speculative statements with limited evidence to support them. One such statement could be saying that Micah's nose was broken in the fight with Arthur, leaving him "barely able to stand" and resulted in him "stumbling away". There is no real evidence that Micah's nose was broken; some blood is present around his nose, but his nose does not actually appear broken. While no one can deny that Micah was injured in the fight, some of the language which you used, such as saying that Micah was "barely able to stand", for example, is overly extreme and over-exaggerates (therefore giving a false impression) Micah's injuries during the encounter.

I also noticed that you added that Arthur could (and forgive me if this is slightly paraphrased) "die in peace, knowing that he had got John and his family to safety", if he went back for the money. I’m going to be blunt on this: this is incorrect. The whole point of going with John (and also why it gives a slight Honor boost), is that it makes John's return to his family safer and much more certain. By contrast, if Arthur abandons John to go for the money, John is left to get to his family alone, in an area swarming with Pinkertons, and his fate is uncertain. The fact that John does so happen to see his family again even if Arthur does go back for the money is irrelevant: as far as Arthur is concerned, John's fate is uncertain, and so he would not die in peace knowing that John got to safety. To be honest, probably the contrary. Additionally, big pages such as the article for Arthur or John need to be concise and with sufficient detail, but not an outstanding amount. The reason for this is simple: if they had too much detail, the pages would go on forever and ever, which is both unnecessary and an inconvenience to the reader.

On a slightly more minor note, sometimes your edits omit commas when they should be present. Obviously a minor grammar mistake is nothing to worry about and everyone makes them sometimes, but please make sure to use commas correctly whenever possible.

I apologise for the length of this correspondence and I congratulate you if you managed to reach the end of all this! However, hopefully you realise that information which is either incorrect or partially incorrect has to be removed accordingly. As not just an administrator, but as an editor who cares about this wiki having consistency well-written pages, I cannot allow such information to remain on the wiki. Remember, please get in touch if you have any further queries.

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