User talk:AndrewHickey

Faction Paradox Wiki
Hi there. :)

I don't really understand most of your message. But I appear to have made you angry. So let me just apologise up front and say that it was never my intent to make anyone mad.

You know, I've never tried to harm FP fandom. How could I? I don't have that kind of power. One of the aims of the original split was always to create an environment that would foster the growth of articles about Faction Paradox -- which is a pretty long way from hurting FP fandom. Indeed, the conclusion to my comments at the FP thread explicitly says that we need more admin there, that I'm willing to appoint them, and that I hope the FP Wiki grows.

You've stated that I've deliberately prevented new editing and new ideas, and that's just so demonstrably false it dumbfounds me. I don't have much experience with administration outside of Fandom, and you appear to have few edits here. So it's possible our mutual confusion comes from our lack of understanding of each other's backgrounds. It's possible that in other places on the web, the word "admin" connotes someone with far greater powers than it does here. But at Fandom, and certainly the way we interpret the role at Tardis, admin are just janitors. That is a definition first given to me by Tangerineduel and it's one that you'll find if you read the top of my profile page. We do the cleaning and the heavy lifting.

That's why I spent a good deal of time back then setting up the structure of the wiki, so that an admin staff wouldn't have to do a lot of work. I created a wordmark, detailed instructions about how to edit the main page, forum integrations on the front page, a category structure -- a ton of stuff that gave whoever came in later a massive leg up over trying to start the wiki from scratch. And nothing to do with the content or administrative pages of the wiki is locked down or even protected. The front page is completely editable. You yourself have edited the only policy page about sources. You know firsthand that if you don't like what it says, you can change it. If you don't like what it says at -- again -- you can change it. And there's never been even a single hour where you couldn't. So if you don't like what it says, is it reasonable to blame me?

Finally, it's deeply unfair for you to quote words I wrote in the Spring of 2012 as if I just said them. Honestly, I haven't thought about the things you're quoting since I wrote them. You're holding them up as if they're things I said yesterday -- as if they're some deeply held personal conviction.

Much of what I wrote at FP was placeholder text. After the decision was made to split came the realities of, "Well, how do we accomplish it? What's going to be on the front page? What's a good structure to put in that allows people who came from Tardis to feel like they basically have the same tools they had at Tardis?"

It was sincerely just an effort to get the ball rolling. I honestly don't care how that text gets rewritten -- or really how anything else on the wiki might get changed. The content of the wiki needs to be handled by people who are really into FP. My job on the wiki is mostly over at this point. I need to retain Bureaucrat status there so that new admin can be appointed with ease. And since the people who are making the most noise about FP are people who are not familiar with the technicalities of Fandom, it'll be useful to have me around when you -- inevitably -- run into CSS issues and the like.

Would I like to appoint someone like you who appears to know something as an admin? Absolutely. The fact that you care passionately about the subject does make you a more attractive candidate than your 25 edits between the two wikis would otherwise suggest. I'd like to see more proof that you're serious about it, of course. It's standard procedure on Fandom that people with no admin experience edit for at least a continuous week, have created at least one new page, and are still editing the wiki while the admin nomination is considered.

But we have to be able to work together and trust each other. You wanna give it a shot? 21:48: Wed 28 Dec 2016