First off, we want to genuinely apologize to those who we hurt during the process of discussing proposed edits to the Malik page and to any other pages over the past several months. We were too defensive over this, and we are working as a team to make changes to how we approach lore and sensitivity issues. We’ve put together a list of pages and projects to work on with the lens of culture in mind, and are working on some page edits for several Garages players.
We want to thank everyone who contributed to the past several days of conversation on Malik. Thank you especially to Cliact for coming into the Big Garage to talk with us, to Astrid for getting the article project started, and to Paopuleaf for writing the original proposal, and for allowing us to work from there on our rewrite.
The edit to Malik’s page adds more depth to the cultural background for both Original and Alt Malik, and keeps some of the video game traits of Alt Malik’s original world while moving it away from being too different/distant from Earth or too literal of a Final Fantasy 14 clone. It removes references to anti-monarchy or killing kings while adding that Malik is an anarchist, and keeps a good amount of the content from Paopuleaf’s edit. It also adds some Expansion Era lore like Alt Malik getting less afraid of water as he got swept in flooding as well as the time he hit a homerun into the dying Coin (awesome). We also tuned up the “Places Malik got banned from” page which will be posted on that talk page.
We welcome feedback, suggestions, or questions on this edit. Thank you again to anyone who has been following along with the Malik edit process, and stay tuned for further edit proposals from the Garages.
