Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-27022982-20161227173144/@comment-961279-20161228050841

Unfortunately, talking to him isn't going to work. What I've seen is that people like this are going to keep making the same kinds of edits no matter what other people say. If you leave them a message, they'll ignore it because they know they're right, so why bother replying to someone who is wrong because they disagree with what they're doing?

Along with that, many of them make edits that change things just to change things. That's their whole reason for doing it. There's no facts to back it up. It's just "today's a new day so I'll put in something different than I did last time". As I pointed out, HuxRen123 made a dozen edits to Snoke's page over ten months, and all twelve were different each time. And when I did research to see how often this sort of thing was happening, I counted 161 different ways of saying what kind of antagonist ONE character was.

Sometimes what you have to do is be more persistent than they are. If you can maintain that persistence and back up what you put in with facts instead of opinion, then their opinion or "change it just to change it" starts working against them. Others start to see they're not really helping when they do that. If they start getting more adamant that they're right because they say they're right, then it becomes vandalism and administrators then have a legitimate reason for issuing a block that isn't arbitrary or just a difference of opinion.

What really needs to happen is for everyone to stop antagonist fussing and start focusing on the other 99% of what the character does, what their motivations are, who they interact with, etc. I can put blinders on and keep parroting "Abraham Lincoln was a President", but that says nothing about him as a person or what he did.

As I've said, a lot of people are arguing about what to do with one brick, and meanwhile, the entire house isn't being built because of that one brick.