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-- New user message (talk) 15:50, 10 May 2015 (PDT)
Block clarification response
Hi Elcor05,
Your temporary 2 hour block was due to the way you were editing the wiki. Not only did you remove a very legitimate category from a page about a work of fiction, It appeared that you were attempting to create a subjective list, which would be more appropriate as a user page. Fiction-related categories aren’t organized based on featured items because this can be highly subjective and doesn’t have a strong, logical basis for site-wide categorization.
Please refrain from making similar changes in the future.
--Deadfire (talk) 17:09, 2 February 2025 (EST)
- Dear Deadfire,
- The legitimate category that was deleted was a misclick, and I literally was in the process of fixing it when you blocked me. And if I could not have fixed it, I would have contacted a mod, since they are suppose to believe we are acting in good faith. Thanks for the clear and quick communication though. If you would like to know as well, my new category was an attempt to categorize fiction so that new members of Sarna can quickly find fiction about new factions. As a Snow Raven fan, it is consistently hard to find the few Shrapnel articles that concern them. So I thought ‘Hey, why not help out and help my fellow fans!’ I worry that putting this in my user page would not be helpful, because why would someone new to the fandom ever think to look at my page? Again, thank you for your time and understanding, and for editing in a ‘Best’ in your comment! Enjoy the rest of your day.
- Respectfully, — The preceding unsigned comment was posted by Elcor05 (talk • contribs) .
