Talk:The Journey to the Merge

Deceptive attribution

User:Anaxis created this page with the following introduction:

On 23 January 2021, a set of screenshots were publicly released by Watchmen member Lainchu ...

As we know from this, this, and this, among others, Anaxis was Lainchu at that time. Had she kept it to "conversations with Lainchu/the Lainchu RP account" or something like that, it might be a little less egregious, but here she's claiming that Lainchu was (a) an actual person and (b) not her. Now, not wanting to get your name involved with Chris content is totally understandable ... which is why she's using the name Anaxis and not her government.

She's bullshitting around hard here, and combined with the efforts of User:Hurful Truth Level (who granted her jannie privileges on the Wiki in April 2021) to redact her identity from the Watchmen page, there's a very clear effort to scrub her involvement with that group and with fucking around with Chris in general. It is all suspect as hell. The various highly selective "Watchmen leaks" from their Discord were also a pet project of hers (although one imagines they could not have been done without the approval of, at the very least, Naught, at least given that Anaxis stayed around.) Anaxis left the Watchmen and went with Sean's splinter group (the Knights of CWC) from which she leaks nothing (or even acknowldge their existence) and then goes dark around the time of the merge.

This situation keeps expanding and really needs to be addressed on a large scale, sooner rather than later, for the sake of everybody's credibility. At this point I treat everything I read here relating to these people as suspect, and keep receipts (archive.li) of every edit I do because I have no confidence whatsoever that people are acting in good faith.

Highly relevant discussion is here on the Watchmen talk page.

For the record I have tried over time and repeatedly to get in touch with Anaxis and she ignored and eventually outright refused to speak with me. SpookyBones (talk) 23:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Yikes. This looks pretty bad.

As someone who doesn't browse the Farms much and mainly just WikiGnomes here, I propose that as a starting measure, editors who have personal connections or a conflict of interest regarding a topic be categorically barred from editing articles on that topic, similar to how Wikipedia deals with this kind of thing. I don't see any reason why people suspected of being in the Watchmen are allowed to edit the Watchmen page.

I don't really know enough about the situation to say much more, so I'll leave that to other editors. More action definitely needs to happen, though.

By the way, SpookyBones: the links you're using as sources are dead links. I think you might have forgotten to put "File:" before the names of the images you're linking. You might want to fix that. --4CentUser (talk) 00:25, 27 October 2021 (UTC)