User blog:MtMB/Vandal spread

Hello, admin of this wiki speaking here.

I understand your feelings and disgust toward recent news about the creator of the show, but vandalizing articles (and trying to make it look funny) really doesn't help, not the wiki and people who are working on it, nor the whole community.

For the time being anonymous contributions on this wiki are turned off (of course we had some wicked anon vandals before too). Article in question was reverted to an old version and is protected right now. We will think what to do about it later, as there is still no standard for articles about show staff, nor official statements.

I recommend you to focus on actual show while surfing and contributing to this wiki. Not to mention that the creator was removed from the production of the show on some early stages, according to some sources (there is still a lot of things that need to be confirmed and proofed).

Users, who obviously registered on FANDOM just to make bad edits, or are legitimate active wiki editor but only with vandal edits here, will be instantly banned.

UPDATE (24/09/19)

Updating this post, because apparently some people don't put much thinking into reading. Plus we have some information now - this page has insightful break down on and history of controversy surrounding Julia Vickerman, creator of Twelve Forever (unfortunately it can't be saved on Web Archive, so here's a screenshot of it, in case it will disappear or will be drastically changed, and archived tumblr post in question with a post regarding work misconduct).

So, what did wiki get after all these news? Instead of starting proper discussion and giving suggestions on how to handle this information, people started vandalizing articles to the point of turning this matter into a joke. So I had to make actions listed in the beginning of this blog post.

Although I have lost sympathy toward the show itself after watching it, I still think it's a good show, which was made (I hope) by good people, and there is nothing hard about separating the creator from its creations (you don't even notice how often you do that). Obviously, it's very unlikely it will get another season, but it still can live on it's own and attract and inspire news fans. Wikis in current web space have replaced fan sites and have become vital part of fandoms (hence why this hosting was renamed not long time ago), so I still want this place to be clean and friendly.

How things on the wiki are going to be now:
 * all articles about show staff are now deleted and won't be created
 * anonymous contributions are turned on again
 * show article will still be protected from anons
 * users who will try to insert controversy information into articles will be warned, if warning is dismissed - blocked
 * "usual" vandalism (like we had once whitewashing of Esther, to the point of character images edits) is still punishable by blocking, of course