User talk:TheDeinonychus

It's means it is, not its

Can you please be more careful when making edits? It's and its are different. 92.24.181.78 18:37, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Also, please stop writing stuff that is irrelevant to the game. Thank you. 92.24.181.78 18:42, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm not sure who exactly you're talking to. Nobody is going to see this page aside from people who watch the recent changes. We get edits from thousands of random passerby, some more grammatically inclined than others, so it's/its is a problem that is going to come up from time to time. Moderator vigilance only goes so far in the case of such fine details, so we rely on even more random passerby to correct poor grammar. As for the irrelevant stuff, information on the real-world creature is acceptable in the trivia section, as trivia by definition is information of little importance or value, but that people might be interested in knowing.
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 19:25, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Obviously, I'm talking to TheDeinonychus, this is his talk page, he should see it and be alerted to it. Also, no, it isn't. I've seen trivia that has very little to do with the in-game creature get removed before. His edits had nothing to do with the in-game animal. 92.24.181.78 19:35, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Ah, my mistake. The link to the user page at the top was broken and I couldn't find him in a search, so I assumed you were just an anonymous user posting to a random user talk page (which does happen a lot). Regardless, yes, that is what the trivia section is for - random facts and bits of information that may be interesting but are ultimately of little relevance to the game. Since the Parasaur, for example, is based of a real-world Parasaur, small bits of information about its origin, and especially those which may draw attention to design decisions, such as the Parasuarolophus skin flap between its crest and neck which is not featured in-game, is relevant. Admittedly though, some of the stuff you removed does not have even the slightest obvious link to the in-game counterpart. I'll ask the other admins for their thoughts on the matter.
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 20:29, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Far as I know, the definition of 'trivia' is a collection of facts and information related to but not necessarily directly pertaining to the topic at hand. Information about the real creatures the animals in ARK are based off of qualifies as trivia. If trivia is supposed to just be information about the in-game animal, than that should honestly be part of the main article above, since that is where the game-related information should be. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheDeinonychus (talk • contribs) at 20:45, 28 February, 2016. Please sign your posts with ~~~~

No, "trivia" relates to information that doesn't fit anywhere in the rest of the article. I have been dropping by this wikia every once in a while, and I have seen your style of "trivia" be added, then immediately deleted. Like, seriously, what was your point about Casteroides' rump even meant to achieve? It can't be an in-game feature. Look, if it helps, I would really recommend reading through the other animals' trivia sections, and see what has been written there. 92.24.181.78 23:53, 28 February 2016 (UTC)

Your idea of 'immediately deleted' is pretty inconsistent and, honestly, wrong. There has been information on the real world animals for months on this wiki, and it hasn't been removed. In fact, the only bit of real world information that you're removing is stuff that I've added. If what you said were true, the entire wiki would be wiped of Trivia, but you're only specifically removing edits I've made. And until you started removing things, no one has had any problem with any of the real world facts being added to the Trivia sections. This is looking less like a question of what the site's policy is on trivia and more like you're simply just undoing anything only I add to the pages. TheDeinonychus (talk) 10:26, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Look, the reason I edited it in the first place was, as I've mentioned, because you keep using "it's" instead of "its". But as I was correcting them, I realised none of your edits had anything to do with the in-game animal. That is why I deleted them. As I have already stated with Iguanodon (which, again, has not been released), only one of those edits can really fit. And you're still wrong, because the Terror Bird trivia about it being listed as a family and not as a genus was also removed, even though I personally thought that was noteworthy. 2.101.14.145 16:14, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

If you found typos or grammatical mistakes, feel free to correct them. I tend to not catch slip ups with 'its' and 'it's' because neither one show up on the spell checker. But that isn't an excuse to just remove someone's additions wholesale because you think the word 'trivia' means something different. TheDeinonychus (talk) 17:05, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

And yet, you're the only person making that argument. You keep insisting, and I quote, "If the trivia section is meant only for in-game information, whatever is supposed to go there should really be incorporated into the main body of the page", but you don't seem to understand that the reason it's in trivia is because it doesn't fit anywhere else. Every other major wikia has trivia that largely comprises of basic facts that are there because they don't easily fit into the main article, such as the Jurassic Park wikia to give a similar example. I don't hear you complaining about those, so I don't see why you're complaining about this when it's doing the exact same thing. 2.101.14.145 18:35, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

This conversation has been moved to the Rules-talk page to try to keep things a little more organized as well as invite the opinions of other users. Please provide your thoughts there and try to focus on the subject at hand rather than the people discussing it.
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 01:02, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

First of all: I appreciate the work you put in collecting the content. If other users think content is not appropriate it should be discussed. But most important: edit-wars are not helping the matter and are not tolerated. Mr Pie 5 already warned both of you. The next revert of any edit of you two before we have decided how to deal with this matter will result in a ban. Please keep any personal issues out of the following discussion, state your opinion what should be allowed on the Rules-talk page.--Cadaeib (talk) 15:00, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

If you have been around as long as you claim, then you should also know that we don't tolerate edit-wars. I don't want to see any more back-and-forth reverting from either of you until we reach a solid conclusion on this matter.
-- Mr Pie 5 (talk) 00:25, 29 February 2016 (UTC)