User blog comment:Gnostic/Fanon vs. Alternate Universe/@comment-72835-20110324194717/@comment-260745-20110327172657

How selfish. You give no thought to what effect your insistence that you have a right to your own Shepard has on the overall organization of the wiki. A wiki must have some sort of commonly-accepted underlying truth against which all articles can be checked. This truth cannot exist when everyone is allowed to create their own timeline for the sole purpose of having their own Shepard.

Look at the mess that has emerged with ONAS. After using Foxtrot's creation in his works, EliteMaster went and gave his Shepard a name and a background without consulting Foxtrot. Now, in order to accomodate all of the other Shepards to which people insist they have a right, Elite's work must be considered an alternate timeline, and because Lovelyb0nes used one of Elite's characters in his work, Bones has been dragged into that alternate timeline, and wasn't even aware of it until I told him.

SWFW is a perfect example of what happens when you allow the unchecked proliferation of alternate timelines. Over there, you can't even get rid of ridiculous shit like "Justin Gann Continuity", because the creator can just insist that in their timeline, Courage the Cowardly Dog hanging out with Yoda is not a crossover.

Of course, this is all a moot point, since BT still retains the ability to decide policy.