Thread:RRabbit42/@comment-26038510-20160724100037/@comment-961279-20160724155438

They may be the same person. I am still doing research, but I see matches in the edits made by both accounts.

Mason's statement over on the Despicable Me Wiki that "i want Ghost Wars to be real" is an attitude I've seen many times. Unfortunately, the ones with that attitude always seem to dig their heels in and get stubborn, insisting it's real well past the point where it's obvious it's not. Too many of them keep trying to push their fan fiction onto a wiki until it becomes lying and vandalism.

That's a shame because there's no shame in wanting to write your own story about a subject you like. But if you do this, you need to find out where the right place is to share your story. A lot of wikis want to keep fanon separate from fact. If they allow fanon on their wiki, they want it clearly identified up front that it's fanon. Some will create a separate wiki for fan fiction. The people who get stubborn and say "it's real" and "it's true" don't want to accept that their story needs to go in a different place or be identified as fan fiction. It has to go on the main wiki amongst the true information. I even saw one guy who said that because his story wasn't allowed on the wiki, that it would somehow prevent the movie from being made, even though he kept insisting it was real and was already scheduled to be released in a couple of years.

This is the point where admins have to come down hard on them in order to get them to stop. And what could be a good experience that leads them to something they enjoy and want to continue doing becomes unpleasant and they'll probably abandon it.

I had something like that happen to me. When online multiplayer games that were turn-based were just getting started back in the days of bulletin board systems, there was one I tried playing but kept having to start over every day because the other players kept attacking my spaceship when my turn was over. After two weeks, I gave up and I haven't really liked multiplayer games since then. Maybe I would have been more willing to give others a chance if that hadn't happened, but I've also seen a lot of MMOs that got shut down because the company didn't want to support the game any more.

I have been thinking of writing a "what to do if you want to write fan fiction" article that might guide some of these budding writers into doing it right before they end up putting themselves in a position where that bud might have to be nipped before it has a chance to grow.