Talk:Empire of Death (Doctor Who episode)

Prejudice and Class
Alright, I've been trying to change just one word in this stupid article, it keeps getting reverted without an actual good reason. First someone reverted the whole article because of an abundance of words, then someone accuses me of "hiding" something by marking the edit down as "Minor", I find that low. So I put it in again not marking it down as such and I get reverted just because I was "Reverted".

Seems the higher rated class on Wikipedia has become predudicial about who can edit what in here, just like the Cult in Doctor Who fandom has become toxic, in their attempts to rewrite the history and continuity of the show to fit their world views and their perception of reality.

So I'm going to avoid Disney Doctor Who the same way I'll avoid political pages, and apparently get back to 80's and B-movies "Where I apparently Belong". Maxcardun (talk) 11:06, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I agree that it shouldn't have been re-reverted, as the grounds of the original revert were for it being marked as minor when it (arguably) shouldn't have been. Honestly, I personally think it was fine to be classed as minor because it didn't change the meaning of the article as far as I'm concerned, but equally I don't think JustAnotherCompanion was wrong to revert it – it comes down to their own judgement, and I'm not going to question that; I can potentially see an argument for it not being minor. I do, however, think OlifanofmrTennant should not have reverted it again when you restored your change without it marked as minor, because you had corrected the issue that it had been reverted for. Unless they have an issue with changing "minion" to "servant", there was no reason to revert it (and if they do have an issue with it, they should make clear the reasoning). I'm sure this was just a mistake, however. As for the longer plot being replaced with a shorter version, this is simply to meet the 400 word restriction per MOS:TVPLOT. It doesn't mean you can't make appropriate changes, so long as it fits that word limit; this again was nothing personal.
 * I understand your frustration, but reversion and disagreement is just the nature of a collaborative article, particularly about a new topic. I and the other 2 editors have all had numerous edits reverted, and I certainly have disagreed with a reversion more than once. Assume good faith and engage constructively to reach consensus/compromise, and your contributions will be welcomed. Accusing editors of being in a "prejudiced higher class" without good cause doesn't help anyone. It isn't constructive and doesn't make anyone feel inclined to work with you on it. I hope you don't feel totally put off editing articles on the topic as your contribution is valuable. Irltoad (talk) 17:45, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry you found my edit summary 'low'. I wasn't trying to accuse you of anything - I did note in the edit summary that the 'hiding' may have been unintentional, and for avoidance of doubt I'll state again here that I don't believe you deliberately hid the edit. I considered my decision carefully before reverting. I've considered it carefully again now, and I stand by it. I believe minor edits should be reserved for bot edits, typos, and reference fixing, etc. Edits which fix something about the page but don't visibly change anything. When article text is changed, I believe everyone should have the chance to see this.
 * I think I may also have been the editor who restored the plot to an earlier version (not the whole article). I'm happy to explain myself here if that helps. As noted above, there is a word length mandated for plot sections. After the episode had first been broadcast, I played a part in contributing to a too long plot (which is OK, most if not all plots become too long at first) before editing it down to a suitable length. Then various editors were adding in extra details here or there. At first, I think I reverted one or two. But then I decided to leave it for a bit (wary of accidentally breaching WP:3RR, or approaching WP:OWN territory). My intention was to let the editing die down and then work it back to to the word limit when it was stable. Before I got the chance to, another editor in good faith did their best job at making it shorter. It was still over 400 words, though, so I compared it to the earlier version to see if I could tweak it. I judged the work necessary to bring the amended summary in under 400 while appropriately covering the plot was greater than going back to the earlier version. I trusted that if other editors disagreed with me, or felt I had cut something essential out as a result, they would edit it further. As I recall the main issue I had was the amended version tried to explain too many scenes beat-by-beat instead of summarising them. I hope that it a satisfactory explanation of why the plot summary was restored to an earlier version.
 * Finally, I'd like to note that I don't think there is a "higher rated class" here on Wikipedia. If there is, I certainly wouldn't include myself in it. This account is barely months old! XD JustAnotherCompanion (talk) 20:25, 10 July 2024 (UTC)