User:.Seshat.

About me
About me, huh...? Well... I'm a grammar overlord by the nurture side of Nature vs. Nurture; my grandma is a 'grammar overlord' because her mother was one, and her mother was one because she was an English teacher. Add into that my family's strict religious background, and it was more or less impossible for me to not come out knowing more about the rules of the English language than I would care to. ^.^'

Quite frankly, though, the English language ticks me off; all of our borrowed words lead to us having so many rules that many conflict with one another or have the worst exceptions possible, which lead to pretty much anyone who hasn't gone to college to study English look like a douche when they're writing; I, of course, am no exception. My inclination to writing compound sentences is so bad sometimes I make myself sick.

But I digress; despite my dislike for English, I can't turn away when I see a grammatical/mechanical/spelling error (as in, I literally can't turn away; I think I might have some mild OCD complex, and if I try to turn away from it I'll end up brooding over it for the rest of the day to the point where I'll find myself coming back hours later after having gone through millions of ways to fix a mistake in my head and, indeed, fixing it). It was this that led to me making corrections on this site as an anonymous contributor, and when I decided to make a page I found it necessary to make a screen name, as well; that way, if anyone didn't like my work, they could feel free to tell me directly and I could immediately go about rectifying my mistakes. I'm a bit masochistic in that way...

And, it took me a bit, but I finally found someplace where I can read tutorials on how to make adjustments to this place when I edit~! ^.^ I tried to use this site for it, but I kept getting looped back to the same page and had to turn elsewhere for help...

Things that I consider vandalism, unnecessary, and the like.
I very recently became an admin of this wiki... It wasn't the way I wanted it to happen, but it has, so I am going to do my best to protect the integrity of the D.Gray-man wiki. The main reason I have Administrator Rights is because I want to protect this wiki from becoming a dump for vandalism/unnecessary (more often than not fan) information. All reverts and undos I perform to this wiki happen for a reason; more often than not because people are insistent on using fan-translated proper nouns that are available on places such as MangaFox, Spectrum Nexus, Manga Reader and other such online scan websites, or because people insist on putting too much of their bias (i.e. "Kanda was very close to Alma. Many fans believe he was in love with him" [if you would pay attention, Kanda was in love with Alma's previous incarnation, not Alma Karma]), or even, heaven forbid, because people insist on posting their own fanfiction/original characters.

If I undo something you did or report you to an admin and you'd like to know why, check the list below to make sure whatever you did wasn't something that constitutes as vandalism/unnecessary/the like in my book.
 * Insistent edits to articles that change a proper noun from one translated by Viz or the official D.Gray-Man Gray Ark fanbook to translations done by fans and posted on the internet (this does not apply to the most recent chapters that have not yet been printed in takonbon format and are made available in English, but once the volumes are released, names will be redone if they conflict with Viz translations).
 * Placement of information that is not in English (this wikia is done in English, thus edits made to it should be in English, though if it's a word that is only used in British English, please use the American English equivalent, instead).
 * Addition of pages that do not have enough information to constitute a page/do not have enough citable information (i.e., the page does not have information that spans more than a scant page or so in the manga [information drawn from after chapter specials requires extra attention, as in the case of the detailed information in Komui's Discussion Room Vol. 2, in the 5th Volume of the manga, page 42, given in relation to the hierarchy of the Black Order]).
 * Addition of utterly irrelevant pages (like multiple pages for Yuu Kanda or Kanda Yu(u) or Yuuuu Kaaaaandaaaa~! -.-' )
 * Addition of pages that consist of nothing but fan information (from fanfics to OC character profiles).
 * Addition of information that is worded/spelled poorly and is not referenced (in some cases, said added information may simply be rewritten, but if you're going to do something like write an entire arc summary but you do it illegibly, you'll likely get a complaint).
 * Addition of information that is written in 'text speak' or shorthand. (Orly? Ya rly. No wai!)
 * Harassment of staff and/or fellow editors. Do I really need to elaborate?
 * Blatant vandalism (such as the edit I saw just a few days ago that someone did to the Klaud Nine page, where they were under the impression that it was common knowledge that one of her abilities involved stripping off her clothes and copulating with every moving thing in a five foot radius).
 * Deletion of entire paragraphs, especially if they're referenced (I know that we have some younger editors on this wiki, but are you serious? you kids have nothing better to do than dismantle articles that people who actually care about being members of this community and respect the work others do have been building up for years? go back to your mother's kitchen and draw on her walls with marker so she can slap you for me).
 * Insistent addition of speculative information and 'crack theories'. This is a wiki of facts; if you can't give an official reference than can be looked up, then it doesn't belong.

Please don't interpret this as me being a jerk (or any other curse variant you'd like to replace that with); truth be told, when it comes to people I'm not familiar with, I have no spine. I don't like making waves. But if you do something I feel is wrong or out of place, I will do something about it.

If it's obvious you're doing it because you're childish/on some heavy hallucinogens and deleting/making sexist and racial slurs makes you giggle, I'll just ban you, no questions asked. I've studied other wikis, I've seen a lot of things, and at this point I have little tolerance for such things. I own the first 19 volumes and the fanbook, and I worked hard to earn the money that paid for all of that material, largely because I wanted to make this wiki more complete. Don't try to pull the wool over my eyes; it will not work.

If it's something that sways more towards differing opinions, though, or I don't think you're doing it to be malicious, I'll message you about it and ask you to stop, and if you don't agree we can talk to another admin about it. And if it's something the other admin agrees with you on, I'll admit my error and adjust my mindset about the topic.

When it all gets down to it, I care about being correct in what's posted on this wiki just like you do (unless you're a vandal, in which case refer to the above comment where I tell you [the vandal] to go do something to make your mother slap you in my place). There's a reason we have talk pages, and it's in concurrence with why this is called a wiki community; we're supposed to have the right to argue points with one another, so in the end we can all find a middle ground we can (somewhat) agree with.

Just remember... this is the internet, you guys. ^.^' There's no need to make it personal. Keep it on the talk page.

.Seshat. 06:31, February 27, 2011 (UTC)