Thread:Collector1/@comment-29848345-20170117221644/@comment-1187034-20170125220209

LONG POST Well, I always figured that it was because most people interesting in paleontology focus more on contributing to the field rather than editing wikis. There was one group that actually seemed somewhat successful and that was the JPEnyclopedia hosted by Jurassic Park Legacy, but the wiki hasn't had the best relationship with them.

For starters, inactive admin Tyrant king once wrote back in 2013 that when he noticed an old post on their forums by the site owner "bad mouthing park Pedia saying that park Pedia copy and pasted and is edited by the public." Tyrant king recalls he then told one of his friends and his friend replied calling him an "another damn well Wikipedia editing idiot." We did have an editor who worked on the Encyclopedia, his name was Jhayk' Sulliy. I was always nice and polite to him and respected his knowledge of the franchise, but last year Sulliy felt insulted by a remark made by BastionMonk about JPLegacy regarding what they considered canon. Sulliy said in reply "I've never seen a Wiki so unprofessionally ran. This Wiki attracts constant trolls, blatant headcanons, and the most unscientific research I've ever encountered. Ken Ham has more knowledge of the scientific process of cataloging research."

Then a user who I don't think liked JPL updated the criticism section of the JPL article which matched posts made to the Jurassic Park subreddit. Several months later most of this was removed by anonymous user with the signature "Sickle" who claimed it was "libel". The only man I know who uses the signature "Sickle" is "sickle_claw" a JPL researcher. Two days later the article was majorly edited by a user named "Kelmayisaurus" whose Twitter handle was "Doctor_Levine". I remember that this was the old name for the Twitter account of the JPL user "Richard Levine". I presume that his name comes from Richard Levine, a character in. Kelmayisaurus then took to the talk page of the JPLegacy article. The first statment he wrote was "Just as a reminder (or a tip for whenever your writing anything), dont let your personal opinions influence your articles!" That same day it was announced that JPL would be shutting down. Even more suspicious was how Kelmayisaurus' account was disabled by user choice and on June 8, 2016 during the site's closing a user named "Doc Levine" removed Kelmay's message. Interestingly, the user page for "Doc Levine" mentions that his name is "Mateo", the same name as what the "Doctor_Levine" Twitter account was renamed to.

Though I find some of the claims made by the JPL researchers to be legit, JPL wasn't all good and fair from what I've read. According to what JPL user "Oliphaunt" could gather the owner closed the site due to "fifteen years of drama, manipulative assholes, problems with other sites, and his personal reasons that built up 'till they were literally damaging Ty's [the owner] health." Yikes. Indeed, JPL did have problems with other websites, such as Trescom and even Jurassic Outpost prior to its closure. I also remember reading that there was a pretty bad incident where a user named "BrachioInGen" came to power by pretending to be the owners' friend and added false information to the encyclopedia until he got banned.

Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to get some things off my chest and you seemed pretty rational. I don't hate JPL, but I'm glad I stayed here because I wouldn't want to deal with the drama that JPL had (and even somewhat continued on their successor site ) nor would I want my stuff to be deleted and put under lock and key for who knows how long. I think it was best to just let it end given how the site owner was behaving in its last days.