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Ah. Well first off, I want to apologize for coming off strong. It's not my intention to "bite the newcomer," and in fact I did not assume anything about you other than that you were a newcomer who was eager to contribute. There's no problem with that inherently, and I should have taken a better tact to express myself.

I want to note pretty clearly here that this is not Wikipedia. You clearly have some experience with wiki editing, which is great, but things do work differently here. I also suspect you have more knowledge about the Blaseball wiki and community than you are letting on. There a few reasons some of your edits have been changed and that I requested you to hold off (again, not to go away, you are a welcome contributor).

Big picture, these updates hit the game pretty late in the US, and those of us who do administrate this wiki (no quotations needed) are mainly based in the US. We need time to organize how we will update the wiki in accordance with the season 12 update, and having a new account come in and move a major page without warning sets off alarm bells. Sorry, but that's just how it is.

Fundamentally, we don't require people to use Discord to edit this wiki when it comes to the fan writing commonly associated with the game. But for the indisputable, objective facts, yes, we do organize on Discord, and we work hard to keep track of what is going on in the community and game to ensure as near-perfect of a record as we can get. We aren't going to use the Talk pages for those most of the time because we are more concerned with organizing people to make the changes than actually discussing them.

About half of your changes were reverted because they were in fact a part of a planned, larger systematic change (such as the Tacos rename, which we will use a bot to properly rename references across the wiki) or just incorrect (the Blooddrain was removed before the Grand Siesta). Your change for the Crabitat page is left as is for now, but it might be subject to changes later as we work out what is needed for the community.

Sorry for the trouble.