I do not see black elemental manipulation or dark elemental manipulation anymore.
I do not see black elemental manipulation or dark elemental manipulation anymore.
Yeah. Because even when I type them in the search engine they’re not showing up
Who keeps deleting pages? It’s kinda discouraging because I even tried to find Transcendent Superior Mystic Human that’s gone too 😑
Staff decision
So what’s wrong with dark or black elements? If you don’t mind me asking.
We'll try to do that more often in the future. The thing is with moving candidates for deletion to blogs is that its extremely time consuming, and if you have over 100 pages you have to delete, you kinda see how that isn't the most optimal option.
Moreover, we will move popular pages to blogs when we deem that they are unsuitable on the mainspace, like 10th dimension physiology. Pages like these, especially with the sheer amount of them, didn't seem that necessary for us to reserve the honor of them to be moved to blogs.
We also don't want to clog up the creator's blogspace, which I bring up because the majority of the pages that were deleted were created by the same person.
We've also looked into announcing the deletion of massively popular pages, and we will do it, but these 'background' pages didn't seem to warrant a wiki-wide announcement, at least to the staff anyway.
I apologize if this mass power deletion came off as unnecessary or offensive, but we are really trying to keep this wiki as organized as we can so as to create the best environment for cataloging powers and such not. The creator, Kusarigama, has also recreated it in blogspace too, so you can check it out if you want.
Also, @OtakuRazz20 the staff deemed the pages to be unnecessary because "dark elements" and "black elements" don't exist, and the concept behind it is pretty iffy. "Black elements" fall under "esoteric elements/demonic elements" too, and we decided that they don't need a whole page to dedicated to its contents, especially with how closely linked they are.
@OtakuRazz20 Transcendent Superior Mystic Human was most likely deleted in accordance with the category-specific rules regarding combination physiologies. That particular rule came about as a result of a community vote.
Speaking generally, now:
As far as I can tell, Black Element Manipulation was deleted as a variant of Darkness Manipulation, and Dark Element Manipulation was deleted as a variant of Hell Element Manipulation. It looks like there was a general clean-up wave going on at that time. I disagree that this represents "power-tripping madness." The second most important duty of the staff team is maintaining the wiki's quality standards, as expressed in the wiki's rules and those binding interpretive statements which accompany them. These pages were valid candidates for deletion and so they were deleted. In the past, we have, as a courtesy to users who were particularly invested in a power, moved powers to their userspace instead of deleting them. Dark Element Manipulation had an extensive editing history and its original poster is now inactive-- in other words, there's no blog to move it to and no reason to move it. Black Element Manipulation was created during a rationalization of the Dark/Black namespace and I'm not aware of its previous name, so I'm unable to cite its edit history-- I expect that it had a similar history under its previous name.
The process of maintaining a quality main namespace is ongoing and will inevitably result in further page deletions. If you are particularly attached to a power, the correct time to ask for it to be moved to your userspace is during its "candidate for deletion" stage. I will speak with the staff team to reinforce our guidelines as to when CfD tags should be placed vs. when immediate deletions should occur. Hopefully, this won't be an issue in the future.
What do you think?