User talk:BackroomsReborn

Regarding request #23436
Hi BackroomsReborn, I write to you regarding your recent wiki request. DarkMatterMan4500 declined your request asking for you to clarify how it will not violate our global Content Policy but it seems you may have failed to read it despite you agreeing to follow it when you submit a request via Special:RequestWiki as you started discussing licensing and whatnot. The Content Policy outlines what wikis Miraheze is not willing to host and one of its provisions is "Miraheze does not host wikis with the sole purpose to spread unsubstantiated insult, hate or rumours against a person or group of people" and "A wiki must not create problems which make it difficult for other wikis."

We have had issues with Backrooms wikis recently where its users and administration have engaged in violations of the Content Policy and of the global Code of Conduct (which all users are also bound to) by discussing other people and making uncivil comments. These wikis too have been an undue burden on the global Counter Vandalism Team as 'rivals' to these wikis have gone on them to spam and vandalize which requires CVT to clean up the mess afterwards.

Your request does carry some interesting bits which I would like to address. For example, 1) the fandom has been 'over run by a recent influx of literal children' and 2) '[t]he fandom changed drastically and, in our opinion, for the worse'. While these two statements alone, from a more liberal stance, may not preclude creation of the request wiki, they are evidently of worry to some wiki creators, including me. These statements express dismay at the current condition of the fandom which is reasonable but we went to ensure this never devolves into attacks on certain users or groups which would be a violation of our global policies.

Based on all of this, I want you to clarify how you intend to prevent this wiki from incurring in Content Policy and Code of Conduct violations and that you certify that you have read both policies, thoroughly, and promise to abide and enforce these on your wiki at all times so as to not incur in undue burden to the Stewardship or the Counter Vandalism Team as a whole should they be required to remediate an issue on your wiki. Please respond to this and we'll process your request again. Should we approve the wiki, we will do so conditionally. Have in mind that should this wiki engage in systematic, unrepairable violations of these policies, that approval may be revoked at the discretion of a Steward and the wiki closed. Let us know your answers and we'll process this request, thanks! Agent Isai Talk to me! 17:59, 12 March 2022 (UTC)


 * I apologize for misunderstanding the initial question.
 * "Miraheze does not host wikis with the sole purpose to spread unsubstantiated insult, hate or rumours against a person or group of people". The Wiki wouldn't be doing any of those things. The intention is for it to be lore archive for our 'classic' canon version of the Backrooms. That also pertains to the children that joined the community on reddit and the fandom wiki.
 * We all know of the racism and insanity that happened on r/Backrooms, the original. And the subsequent following communities and wikis. We're trying to make sure to build a strictly moderated, friendly, community.
 * I can imagine you have had issues with Backrooms wikis. We're trying to distance ourselves from those toxic groups.
 * I did read the Content Policy and Code of Conduct. I assumed by agreeing that we'd be promising the guidelines are followed. If clarification of how specifically, I can say that we have we Moderators on our Reddit and
 * Discord that do an excellent job. I don't know how to prove to you without knowing what you would deem as acceptable evidence. I can promise we will do everything within our ability to keep vitriolic stuff out of the Wiki. Our mods live in all different time zones and at least one of us should be reachable at any time.
 * I understand your want to keep everything in order and I accept the risk of deletion. I wouldn't want that stuff up either. Let me know what you would need from us to ensure it doesn't turn into a cesspool. BackroomsReborn (talk) 00:29, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I had a reason to decline it, as we do already have a wiki that was set up by, but I wanted to make sure that it wouldn't cause problems later. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:31, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
 * This wiki request is backed by a community of respectable scale and sufficiently reasonable civility provided its management is responsible in keeping the wiki focus (even in on-wiki discussion preferably) on the backrooms idea, rather than hard critique of other communities and concepts (original backrooms, 'thebackrooms', JP's wiki). This isn't to say criticism would not be permitted, but I think the requestor based on discord research understands what we would not like to see repeated.
 * In light of it being more of a wiki type rather than representing the whole of the idea (there are multiple forms and executions of 'backrooms' just as we acknowledge many forms of personal worldbuilding), I think it would be reasonable to accept the request especially with the supplementary response above. --Raidarr (talk) 13:39, 13 March 2022 (UTC)