Thread:Cyberweasel89/@comment-2089817-20200227050534/@comment-862718-20200301061413

Silver-Haired Seireitou wrote: I've been hanging in there, scarcely on Wiki these days but still trying to keep BFF going. How've you been? It's been... oof. Ten years at this point? Long time indeed.

Yeah, it's been a pretty big hot button issue in this series' fanbase from what I've seen, though mostly centered on this site. I'm not quite sure why there's such a large disconnect but I've (for the most part) tried to stay out of it. I can't really say I have a horse in the race, so to speak, so my opinion isn't the most applicable. But anyways, that's really cool that you're doing an article about this stuff. There's a lot of material to work with in anime and manga especially so seeing it get more attention is definitely a good thing Yeah, wow! I didn't know you were still involved in Wikia! Had I known, I would've got in touch again sooner! WOW I was immature and in general a little, entitled shit back then. But then again, hard to find someone who HASN'T matured over the course of ten years. XD

Yeah, that's the thing: This is the ONLY site that refuses to acknowledge that a character is a transwoman despite overwhelming evidence and every other source of information doing so. MyAnimeList, TV Tropes, and Wikipedia all list the character as a transwoman. And the reasons this Wiki gives for refusing to do so are flimsy at best, easily disproven, and just look SUSPICIOUS AS HELL with how their founder made such blatantly hateful transphobic comments on the character's Talk page and how they've locked the article and don't see the fact that this is so contentious and contually being debated to be an issue. I mean, I realy don't get why they've got such a dog in this race as to keeping the article inconsistent with those other three sites, especially when they've admitted that they're contuining to get questions about it. They stand to gain more than they lose by correcting it, so combined with the words of their founder and their refusal to acknowledge how their reasoning is flimsy, it's honestly going to be hard to NOT paint them in a negative light in my article. It just sounds WAY too much like they've got ulterior motives for this and are trying to hide behind more neutral-sounding reasons.

Thanks! I'm trying to get into more paid writing things, and this article is my foot in the door for the journalism side of writing. I found out about this from an anonymous tip, and I fully intended to give these guys a fair shot to have their voices heard. But instead, I've gotten resistance, attitude, refusal to engage in respectful debate, and all in all a lack of logical reasoning skills, even to the point of trying to take things from other sites out of context to slander my character and invalidate my questions rather than just actually answering them. Unfortunately, even if I DON'T outright call them transphobic, bigoted, and hateful in the article, it's going to be hard to say they wouldn't deserve it considering how toxic they're reacting to simple journalism. But I intend to try and be neutral and just report the facts, so... Well, the evidence will speak for itself. I mean, it's not really even a matter about whether transpeople have a right to exist or not. It's down to the fact that a character is portrayed as trans in-world.

You say that this has been a hot button with the series' fanbase, though? Where else is this Wiki's Nagi/Alice article being talked about? I'd like to do some more journalist investigation, get some interviews and quotes from some other, more personally invested parties. The more personal accounts and alternative views I can get, the more credible this article will be.