Topic on User talk:Arlo James Barnes

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

Don't change a Useful Notes page into a Creator page with a YMMV subpage nine times its size. If you actually have new content about Ohlmarks' other writing we can negotiate this, but what you just did was ... not acceptable.

-- Looney Toons, admin

CC: @Labster, @Robkelk, @QuestionableSanity, @Derivative, @SelfCloak, @GethN7

Arlo James Barnes (talkcontribs)

> If you actually have new content about Ohlmarks' other writing we can negotiate thisIf you actually have new content about Ohlmarks' other writing we can negotiate this

I don't understand what you mean by negotiate but I am of course happy to improve the article as is within my research abilities. I'm honestly surprised it was a controversial edit, I thought a literary person would get a creator page and an essay about aspects of one instance of their creative output would fit well as a subjective ('your mileage may vary') subpage. If I was completely wrongheaded about this, those edits can be reverted with no fear of hurting my feelings or anything [and I see now have been], I just want to understand.

Arlo James Barnes (talkcontribs)

The more I think about it, I come to the conclusion that there's an underlying problem which is that you don't trust me. This isn't a good situation to be in, not for you nor me, and neither the wiki; either I feel like every edit I make is just a chance for you to criticise me, or you feel like every edit I make comes with the danger of fucking something up. In any case, I think it would be better for me to spend my time and energies elsewhere. I still will have enjoyed not having to put up with wacky pmwiki markup, and admired others' projects, and I'll still recommend ATT to people such as through the Wikidata property, but I don't think I'll edit more. It's unfortunate that a couple of my personal projects are left unfinished, but either someone else can work on them if they want or they can be deleted (I saved text-file copies locally). I'm gonna log off now and I don't plan to ever log back in, but AFAIK the email forwarding probably still works if someone needs to get hold of me for any reason. Cheers.

Umbire the Phantom (talkcontribs)

Unfortunate that you're leaving, but I suppose I can't stop you. :/ I'll take up whatever projects you were planning to finish if you like.