Thread:Tupka217/@comment-25656373-20150309183020

Ollie,

Instead of getting pissed off and setting myself up to be annoyed whenever I use this site as a reference (which is far too frequent to risk associating it with a negative), I decided to ask you directly why you deleted the character page I created for Count von Henzel. The character is part of the DCU and the wiki has no information on him at all. I know because this was the first site I visited when I needed the 411 on him and I was surprised that there wasn't anything (it's always my "go to" source for all things DC). I'm pretty sure this was the first time it didn't have the info I needed. So, I turned to Google and hunted down a couple of pics and gathered some information about our dear Count (as you can imagine, information isn't exactly plentiful for a character with just a single appearance 75 years ago). After learning what I needed for a blog article I'm writing, I decided to take a stab at creating the character's page here. Not out of ego (I mean if my writing career has sunk to the point a wiki "shell" article is now a highlight, it's time to volunteer for the Suicide Squad). I just thought someone else may benefit from the info like I would have earlier today. If nothing else, it would save them the 30-45 minutes I spent wading through Google search results that were mostly irrelevant or redundant.

I thought that was pretty much the point of this site. That through everyone's contributions, big and small, we collectively make this the most exhaustive DCU source on the web. Isn't that the goal? I hope so, because that's an awesome goal. I was stoked that there was an opportunity for me to give a little back to a resource that I use so much, but that didn't exactly feel like I imagined being part of an inclusive, collective effort would feel and that bums me out. I would appreciate an explanation. I read the guidelines and reviewed several other character pages as guides/references before and even while I was creating the article. I'm not illiterate and my reading comprehension skills are at least above average, so I genuinely don't have a clue why you were so quick to "lay down the law" by deleting images and info about this character faster than I could add it. I'm asking for clarification solely because I hate wasting my time as much as I am sure you hate wasting yours. You're obviously "top dog", so if I know which characters from DC's vast universe don't rate inclusion, then moving forward I won't bother adding content here about them, and you won't have to worry about deleting the content I created... and we'll both probably have a better day. :)

Thanks in advance.

Sean 