Forum:Goodbye "friend"

Recently I blocked Graestan, my reasoning for this is somewhat complicated. Today I created an article called Poppy McKilt, not long after I got a personal message in IRC from Jaymach who informed me that under Wikia's terms of use such an article was not allowed. When I told him he was free to make a case out of this with higher authorities he responded that he was not going to, as Graestan was already doing so. Here lies the problem, instead of taking it up with this site's administration of which Graestan knows all members and who also concider him a friend, I hear that he's going over our heads and behind our back. To me such behaviour is unacceptable from any user, let alone someone who hardly ever edits here.

Seeing as that I am only human and perfectly capable of mistakes and jumping to conclusions, nothing is final. If Graestan actually did not go to the wikia higher-ups and Jaymach told me a lie about that, Graestan will of course be unblocked with full appologies from myself.

As for the article, we are in fact a humor wiki, we parody things and people, if someone disagrees with some of our content they are free to take it up with the administration and our users and we are open to any civil form of suggestion and discussion. Jaymach himself did not request the deletion of said article, if he did I would have complied on such a request as I have did before.

As for the subject ''how far can we go? '' I have to say that I really don't know. If there is some official rule that prohibits the creation of such articles and warrants their deletion I would hate to see that set a precedent for other parody wiki's such as Uncyclopedia which also has a lot of articles based on real persons.

As a member of the administration and a user of Darthipedia I remain open to discussion about the articles I write here. Users, readers, wikia-staffers and everybody who feels the need to discuss these matters is welcome to contact me on my talk page, our forums, our IRC channel, my email or the administrators general email. Other administrators are open to these discussions as well so reach out if you have a complaint or question. We are all capable of dealing with these things is a mature fashion. If Graestan, who did not reply to me personal message in IRC did not want to talk to me in person the least he could have done was to contact another administrator. He didn't, as a Darthipedia administrator I cannot accept such behaviour from someone who should know better then that.

If you have any questions regarding the personal conversation I had with Jaymach, feel free to contact Jedimca0 who has the logs of the conversation I had with Jaymach, I posted those in our closed administrator channel, he can verify what I stated in this forum.

I say again, if Jaymach did falsly accuse Graestan of said actions, Graestan will of course be unblocked with full appologies from myself.

Why this forum? I'll tell you. Darthipedia has gotten where it is because of people who take the time and effort to create articles, as one of the writers I'm willing to defend the articles I create to a certain level, hence my response to Jaymach to make a case out of it.

I say again I'm open to discussion so if you have any comments I invite you to put them in this forum. Cheers  Madclaw   Shyriiwook! 01:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)