Re: In Which Sybs Gets a Smackdown from the Moderators (part II)
In conclusion, I would hope you live up to your own standards and find out exactly what is Sidewinder's real interest in editing this article over and over again. It is perfectly fine to document the negative attention that Russet Noon has received, but why is it that only the user who is trying to balance the article is the one that gets banned?

I know Sidewinder. I've known her for many years. She has helped out on Fan History in some forms since almost the beginning. She has helped me research various issues of fandom history. She's gone out of her way to research early fan fiction in regards to Led Zeppelin. In one case, she kept poking around and asking people about it for about two years before we found out what we needed to know at MediaWest. I can honestly say that, given our long history as friends, working on this project and other projects, User:Sidewinder has no interest in doing anything other than documenting what appears to be an important fandom issue. The repeated edits were, on her part, an attempt to move away from the language and tone used in the fandom_wank "wank report" and make it more neutral and factual. That many of the most repeated viewpoints around the web currently 'are negative is something you cannot blame her for. You can't blame her for bias on the article. She is reporting what happened. --Laura 18:36, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
If there is information that puts Russet Noon and its author in a more positive light, if there are sources that you think do a better job at documenting the situation, if you can find articles that are biased in that direction, please provide links to them. I will personally ask User:Sidewinder to include them in the article. Contributors just need the base citations to work with. --Laura 18:36, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't see any other administrators editing the article as earnestly and as repeatedly as Sidewinder is doing.

This is because different administrators volunteer/are charged with different tasks. Sidewinder is primarily involved with content development, promoting Fan History at conventions and policy development. That's her job. Given that, it is not surprising that User:Sidewinder would be the one most involved in the editing of Russet Noon. She and User:Betsyb are our two content developers. It is their job to add information to articles that could use improvement, to articles that might be of interest to fandom, to create starting places for others who might be scared of a blank page, to work on articles that are high traffic and need improving. --Laura 19:07, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
The Russet Noon article falls into those areas where we would want to expand on it. Our admins did some similar editing in the Category:Jon and Kate Plus 8 category when we found out that Jon Gosselin might have had an affair. The fan community there went boom! Documentation and article improvement by our admins happen. Sidewinder just happens to be more interested in Twilight fandom (and the Supernatural fandom) then she is in other fan communities so the task to build that article fell on her. --Laura 19:07, 21 April 2009 (UTC)