Thread:Collector1/@comment-25238001-20160914221510/@comment-25238001-20160923222426

Collector1 wrote: You have been very active, MarkJira.

I feel that an admin should have two skills: article maintenance and critical thinking. It would good to have someone else besides me creating comprehensive articles, expanding articles, adding citations, research into certain media, etc. But I feel that critical thinking is the most important trait to have because you can write the biggest articles imaginable and it all be false or fallacy ridden. Critical thinking helps you determine what is true and what isn't.

A good example of determining fact from fiction would certainly be the whole sub-adult T. rex theory. The JPIII T. rex can't be officially labeled a sub-adult if there's been no official source that says otherwise and when the Tyrannosaur Doe, who is apparently a full grown adult, has a lighter skin color than Rexy.

I'm afraid speculations like these won't be going away anytime soon. Fansite Jurassic Outpost unveiled their own wiki upon their rebranding and their current featured article is one of the film's Velociraptor and they have a new claim regarding the differences exhibited to the raptors in the films. From what one of the wiki's editors, Alex Evans, has told me over Twitter, Jurassic Outpost believes the embryos of Velociraptor in the cold storage room in Jurassic Park, which are suspiciously numbered like version numbers in the novel, each represent the three variants of raptors seen in the four films thus far, but according to Evans it is "still up for debate" whether or not the JPIII raptors are one of the embryos seen in the cold storage room.

There are some problems with this claim that reveal it to be more fiction than fact. For starters, the Outpost article states that the numbers listed are 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0, when they are actually "2.03", "1." rest obscured, and "2." rest obscured. Furthermore, how does one know which embryo represents which variant? There's at least six vials per dinosaur, there are two cylindrical embryo storage containers in the room and we don't know if both containers contain the exact same embryos. Plus, for all we know a variant may not have been one of the embryos seen in the cold storage room, like what Evans said in regards to the JPIII raptors.

I want admins on this wiki to have these skills because I feel if I wasn't constantly maintaining this wiki for the past couple of years it would be in a much worse state and it would be nice to know that I have someone carrying my torch for me. Yeah, objectivity has kinda fallen by the wayside in this community, and it's something I feel we need to work on. Not ending debates, not necessarily even coming to definitive conclusions. Just keeping debates friendly, calm dialogues, rather than back-and-dorht spam wars.

If you're ever struggling to make time for administrating, or even if you're indisposed for awhile, let me know. I'd be more than happy to help out the Wiki in any way I can.

Cheers!