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Thanks very much for notifying me. I have reposted the message I wrote in the main thread here.


This has clearly spiralled into an explosive issue on Logopedia|Fandom. As a fellow Indian, and one who always tries to abide by the rules and contribute positively, I share my two rupees here.

My usage of the word ‘kid’ is NOT to be interpreted in a positive sense, but rather to drive home the point that he is severely immature.

I regret to say that I have seen the destructive actions of this kid/guy on DreamDTH, an Indian television and technology forum (hence the name DreamFan). This kid never abided by the rules of that forum, and went as far as saying that a cousin had been selected for a singing reality show (details here), which is bullshit (pardon my French). He even concocted some high school Board exam marks on that forum. After being tolerated for a while, DreamDTH finally banned DreamFan in around July 2020, since by that time he spent much more time on Logopedia than DreamDTH.

In mid-December 2019 DreamFan approached me personally (since I am an active member on that forum) and asked me for some advice on how to get started on Logopedia. Clearly this kid wanted to do nothing but spend all the time on this site creating hundreds of thousands of pages. At first I thought this was a good thing since India is on the whole a greatly under-represented country on this site, compared to other developing countries like Indonesia and Brazil, which have thousands of articles and dedicated maintainers. But there is such a thing as quality over quantity, and creating a page for every tiny little Indian TV channel or local organisation is only going to do way more harm than good.

The category of Indian TV channels, for instance, which I practically single-handedly maintained and ensured that only the more important channels had a page at all, quickly snowballed to more than a thousand pages, overtaking France, the previous leader by page count. There is such a thing as way too much.

The account’s ban in May 2020 did not do anything to stop this unscrupulous juvenile to keep creating a negative and lasting impression through one sockpuppet after the other. Things have come to a head. The less I hear about this account and person, the better. I hope that this menace is put to an end all over not only Fandom but the Internet at large. Special thanks to @RVandres for notifying me of this issue, since I am perhaps the only other Indian with a track record on Logopedia as noteworthy as DreamFan’s. He ought to get a life, and he has already severely jeopardised his chances of that, considering all the misdemeanours done on the Internet.

Pages, once created, ought not to be deleted, but he has created so many of them which have little to no significance that, were I to be an admin, I might have considered wiping them off the face of Logopedia. They are that obnoxious.

Thank you for taking action before this already infamous case gets any worse.

CP

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