Blog:Qualitipedia Iceberg

Greetings Quadpedia! I'm Zangler, and together with TigerBlazer and King Dice, we want to share this new Wiki project where everyone can contribute:



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If you don't know how an internet Iceberg works, here's a brief summary:

An Iceberg has the intention to document popular, determining, interesting & obscure, dark or simply weird content of any topic. Depending on the madness levels of each entry, the Iceberg organizes them in various layers, having the brighter & well-known content in the higher layers, and the most anonymous & bizarre in the deeper layers.

In this case, the Qualitipedia Iceberg will mostly include information about the mainline wikis, their functionality, history & events that took place, community/user base, etc.

Do your best to make your suggestions stay on-topic. Make sure to add some basic information about vague contributions, while more complex ones should be accompanied by long & exhaustive information. You can link your user page at the end of your suggested entries.

First Qualitipedia Iceberg
In February 5, 2022, IcebergCharts user named HomerSyndrome made the first Reception Wikis Iceberg that can be found here. While various pointers are well explained, others don’t share the same level of emphasis and there are just 32 entries, so we decided to remake it, with the help of…

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Right below you can see the Iceberg's progression so far. Based on all the edits and comments that this blog receives, the Iceberg will be updated gradually until we meet an end, where we'll gladly welcome the new official Qualitipedia Iceberg in a different blog.


 * Glossary
 * Wikis
 * Closed wikis
 * Users
 * Events
 * Rules
 * Other

Entries marked in italics were in the original Iceberg by HomerSyndrome

Above Surface

 * Qualitipedia: The main reception wiki family.
 * Crappy and Awesome Games Wiki: These wikis analyse the quality and reputation of games. Crappy Games Wiki was the first amongst all the other wikis.
 * Awful and Greatest Movies Wiki: These wikis focus on films.
 * Terrible and Best Shows & Episodes Wiki: These wikis focus on shows and episodes, for both television and streaming services.
 * Mainline wikis: This refers to all wikis on Qualitipedia. - TigerBlazer
 * Grust : The founder of both the Crappy and Awesome Games Wiki, which would give birth to Qualitipedia.
 * Decent and average media :
 * Pages on the negative wikis whose referents have an overall more mixed reception than negative, are labelled as "Average," with the "Why It Sucks" header being changed to "Bad Qualities" and the "Redeeming Qualities" header being changed to "Good Qualities."
 * For the positive wikis, referents with an overall more mixed reception than positive are labelled as "decent," with ther headers being changed to "Good Qualities" and 'Bad Qualities' (decent media doesn't apply to BSEW). – Zangler
 * Forbidden pages : Each wiki has a list of referents that shouldn't get pages written as to avoid drama or the possible closure of a wiki itself. – Zangler
 * "The Only Redeeming/Bad Quality" header : A header reserved for pages with only one pointer as a good/bad quality. – Zangler
 * Featured and good (2021-2022) articles : Pages that meet the quality requirements get awarded with either the 'Featured' or 'Good' (now deleted) templates, depending on their quality. – King Dice
 * Miraheze : The provider where Qualitipedia's wikis are hosted.
 * Lineup of wikis by color : Each pair of wikis is identified by their colors; Games are green, Shows & Episodes are turquoise and Movies are orange. – Zangler

Surface

 * Rotten and Fresh Websites Wiki: Wikis that focus on websites and topics related to the internet as a whole.
 * Blubabluba9990' : Controversial user among the wikis due to his empiric-toned messages and requests. As a result of this, DuchesstheSponge and MarioMario456 repeatedly blocked him and later created a controversial blog together, which was criticised for allegedly being inaccurate, exaggerated, and it was also seen as "harassment" and "cancel culture," resulting in its deletion.
 * DarkMatterMan4500 : The current leader of the wikis. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:green">Blazikeye535 : One of the two co-leaders of the wikis. – TigerBlazer
 * <font style="color:green">Raidarr (occasionally stylised in all lowercase): One of the two co-leaders of the wikis. Besides his long messages, notable for being very rational and giving insights on situations and problems within the wikis, while keeping a constructive approach. – TigerBlazer
 * <font style="color:green">Current staff : Members of the community that have been promoted to administrators of a single wiki or in various to keep an eye on the contributors and help them when needed. Examples of administrators include PlantyB0i, LuigiMan050-5 and Stephenfisher2001. – King Dice
 * User pages : Pages made by users about themselves, the pages they made and their interests. – Katsumi
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Grust's retirement : After giving Qualitipedia many chances to improve for him to stay, Grust finally left on August 2021 amidst the pedophilia accusations raised against him, later debunked to be, at best, extremely exaggerated.
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Fandom era and migration to Miraheze : From July 2013 to September 2018, the wikis were hosted on Fandom. With the closure of negative reception wikis on Fandom that started around August 2018 due to a new policy on the site, both the wikis and userbase moved to Miraheze.
 * <font style="color:red">Custom headers : Pages can alter the "Why It Rocks/Sucks" headers with references that relate to what the page talks about, such as iconic phrases, key words or jokes. However, the headers of average media are not permitted to have custom headers. – Zangler
 * <font style="color:red">Prohibition of opinionated/biased pages : Qualitipedia wikis intend to document the determining aspects that got each piece of media the reputation they have today based on reviews and popular opinions expressed in the pages. To do this, they prohibit pages based on heavy subjectivity, and currently sources backing up the reception of something is starting to be advised and eventually, enforced. – Zangler
 * <font style="color:red">Copy and paste : All the writing of pages should be of the user's own words. Anything that is pasted without authorization or is made by another user instead of the creator is not permitted. - HawkeyeSolo
 * <font style="color:blue">Media moved from one wiki to another : Odd situations of media having a page in a wiki that didn't suit them, eventually being deleted and getting a page in the sister wiki. Examples include Brawl Stars, which used to be in AGW but is now in CGW, and Space Chickens in Space, which used to be in TSEW but is now in BSEW. – Zangler
 * <font style="color:blue">Hate pages : Pages that put more focus on criticizing harshly a piece of media rather than analyzing its content rationally. These pages are often deleted very quickly. – Zangler
 * <font style="color:blue">Sandboxes : Pages that have yet to be finished or that need more time are kept in this box before becoming an official page. Pages with empty sections (or ones that are clearly unfinished) are most likely to be deleted. - HawkeyeSolo
 * <font style="color:blue">Reception wikis - TV Tropes : A blog written by NeptunePerson18 that can be found in TSW. The blog parodies a TV Tropes article if it were to talk about the Qualitipedia wikis, their users and which tropes they qualify for. As a community-driven blog, any user can edit it to add themselves. - Gilimaster69
 * <font style="color:blue">Joke pages : Inside joke spawned from blogs. Joke pages are often written in Reception Wiki-style with comedic purposes, usually based off things that don't exist, hence the name. Common types of joke pages are intentionally bad articles mocking oneself or an existing product/piece of media. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">The most villainous user in Qualitypedia's history : Inside joke where PituckostheCockatiel proclaims he's the eponymous, and similar to Grust, he earns said title by fake-torturing the admins in blogs. – Zangler

Below Surface

 * Dreadful and Magnificent Literature Wiki: Wikis that focus on literature.
 * Reverse reception wikis: Satire wikis that alter content to sound opposite to their actual counterparts.
 * Unofficial wikis: Other wikis that use the "reception" format, but are not considered to be part of Qualitipedia.
 * Loathsome and Incredible Characters Wiki: Spin-off wikis that focus on analyzing opinions on fictional characters. – King Dice
 * Cancelled Games Wiki and Cancelled Movies Wiki: Wikis that focus on pages about unreleased games or movies. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:#787870">Worst and Delightful Music & Songs Wiki : Once wikis that focused on music, songs and musicians. They were closed due to plagiarism.
 * <font style="color:#787870">Upsetting Toys Wiki and Fantastic Toys Wiki : Wikis that focused on analyzing opinions on toys. They were closed by community vote, but they are available for adoption. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">Discord server : Qualitipedia has its own Discord server, formerly for Crappy Games Wiki, then changed to be for Qualitipedia as a whole.
 * <font style="color:blue">Anti-SJW : People that oppose SJW ideologies. Qualitipedia previously had an anti-SJW stance, while at the same time mocking the so-called 'Obsessive Anti-SJWs'.
 * <font style="color:blue">GamerGate : A movement destined to end the corruption in gaming journalism, that caused changes and arguably, harm. Before shifting to a more politically neutral focus, Qualitipedia was pro-GamerGate.
 * <font style="color:blue">Political and stereotype database : The wikis used to be mildly infamous online due to their sometimes heavy political focus. This sparked the intent on leaving political matters behind, or being as neutral as possible. – TheRealEldegoss
 * <font style="color:blue">Incredible Characters Wiki is the only one still on Fandom : In comparison of the rest of the Wikis, Incredible Characters Wiki (or there as Great Characters wiki) is the only one of the original FANDOM wikis that was not deleted. It is notable that the quality and staff of both wikis is different. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">Awesome Possum CGW page mentioned in a blameitonjorge video : Awesome Possum's page appeared briefly in a video by user blameitonjorge, titled "10 Incredibly Lame 90's Mascots That Time Tried To Forget".
 * <font style="color:blue">MarioBobFan ban RfC : This RfC was held to determine MarioBobFan's ban on Qualitipedia as a whole. While this is common on other wikis, it was particularly notable for being the first (and likely only) RfC on Qualitipedia to ban a user. It was also the fastest RfC close ever, totaling a time of 4 hours. - User:ZeusDeeGoose

Depths

 * <font style="color:#787870">Neutral wikis : Wikis created multiples times as a solution to Qualitipedia's "non-truly neutral" way of defining media. They always ended closed due to low interest and traffic.
 * <font style="color:green">DuchessTheSponge : Ex-leader of Qualitipedia, between July to August 2021. His leadership lasted one month, making his departure following his role on Grust's false accusation, falsely banning SuperStreetKombat from the now-closed SephSpace, deleting the YouTube page (which is now restored) from Rotten Websites Wiki, and the Websites Wikis' closure, and additionally requesting a global lock on Miraheze.
 * <font style="color:green">DeviantART users’ rants : A handful of DeviantArt users made rants on Qualitipedia. While a few are constructive, most were filled with wishes to close the wikis, and included pseudo-sources (linking other rants as "effective" sources), like DuchessTheSponge's. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:green">DarthXiao : A very infamous user known to hate SJWs to such a degree that they outright believed they should all be killed. When the other users told them that their way of thinking was wrong, Xiao's common counter would be to point to media like John Wick and Hitman as proof some people deserve to die as well as wishing them death and torture threats (King Dice being the most known victim on those). However, they never explained why a group wanting to fight perceived injustices in the world deserves to be massacred. The mods eventually got fed up with their rants and banned them.
 * <font style="color:green">Inactive and banned users : Inactive and retired users that used to collaborate until some point, like Grust, Paprika, Masson Thief and xXSeph_MySpaceXx. Various users have been banned due to terrible actions they did, like Cruseid, Hamzat213 and UglyDollsFan2002. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:green">Sockpuppeters and their alt accounts : Similar to other wikis, Qualitipedia has a handful of sockpuppet users, either to apologize for their actions or to troll. While there are some that are just a one-time thing (like Gamingq7890) and other stopped after some time (like Inkster and Wikinger) others had been continuing to do it to harass the staff and do vandalism (like Quarrow, Shish Kabab and -abigblueworld-). – King Dice
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">The Great Page Purge : During late 2020 and early 2021, a controversial mass deletion of pages led by then-bureaucrat Allistayrian happened, the reason being for quality control. This caused many respected users to leave, given the authoritarian character of the event.
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Prohibition of downvotes in comments : As seen in an old rule from Awful Movies Wiki in February 2021, downvotes used to be no longer allowed due to opinion disrespecting and the code was changed to, however the rule was met with backlash from users and even Grust hated it, so was later changed to allow downvotes again. - Gilimaster69
 * <font style=Color:red>Source Reliability-O-Meter : A blog post that prohibits certain sources from being used in the 'Reception' section. This is based off another blog that follows a similar structure. – ZeusDeeGoose
 * <font style="color:blue">Grust's political views : Grust was known for having a very strong anti-SJW and pro-GamerGate stance, reflected on his own blogs.
 * <font style="color:blue">Grust's blogs : During his active days, Grust used to write blogs, most notably his Top 10s about things such as games.
 * <font style="color:blue">Zangler's break blog : Malaise infection level increased! is a controversial blog by Zangler. The "Thank You?" section was particularly infamous for comments that Zangler made towards certain users. Raidarr deleted the blog, but a revised version of the blog was restored, removing some of the comments Zangler made. - ZeusDeeGoose
 * <font style="color:blue">Zangler saying 'ew' : Typically, Zangler says 'ew' when removing unnecessary pages and redirects. - ZeusDeeGoose

Abyss

 * <font style="color:#787870">The Outcast Network : Reception wikis dedicated to talking about real life people. Some include Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, Atrocious Deviants Wiki, Horrible Vyonders Wiki and Crummy Scratchers Wiki. They were deleted in September 2020.
 * <font style="color:#787870">User Reception Wikis : In the past, they were various wikis dedicated to talk about infamous communities online. Some of them include Unfavourable Wikis and Users Wiki and Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki. All of them had been deleted around the same time as The Outcast Network due to breaking Miraheze's Content Policy.
 * <font style="color:green">PKMNLivesNew/Ugly Rat : Known for trying to get the wikis closed during the FANDOM era due to the anti-SJW ideologies of the wikis at the time.
 * <font style="color:green">YukariWayne : A user who would constantly start fights with admins (DuchessTheSponge and MarioMario456) and drag other admins (SuperStreetKombat) into the fray. - HawkeyeSolo
 * <font style="color:green">Flex Entertainment : A record label founded in 2019 that specializes in meme rap. A huge target for the FANDOM version of Horrible Music & Songs Wiki as dozens of pages about songs, albums and artists from that record label flooded the site. Noteworthy artists on this label include Lil Flexer, Submarine Man, Lama Doodle, Footye North, Yung Schmoobin, Lil Mosquito Disease, Wild Wes, A.J. and Big Baller B. – Voxel Villager
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">The Ballad of the Ugly Rat : Blog created by old retired user WENth100, comically explaining PKMNLivesNew's attempt to get the wikis closed during the late FANDOM era.
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Websites Wikis' shutdown : During Duchess' leadership, the Websites Wikis were shut down by him without the consent of other users and administrators and lied about it. They returned the next day.
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Horrible Music & Songs Wiki’s time on Qualitipedia : TBA – TigerBlazer
 * <font style="color:#e1a902">Horrible Music & Songs Wiki on FANDOM : Infamous for its bias towards modern mainstream music, toxic userbase, reliance on review websites like Album of the Year, and a number of pages flooding the wiki that were about songs and artists from a troll record label known as Flex Entertainment. Its deletion date was unknown, but no new pages have been made since late September/early October of 2020. - Voxel Villager
 * <font style="color:blue">Branching mods : Qualitipedia's wikis (as expected) and most of its spin-offs share the same staff across them.
 * <font style="color:blue">Pages based off banned/illegal and lost media, real life accidents and deaths : Some pages are based on real life accidents and tragic events (such as the The Twilight Zone accident on AMW), a form of lost media (Heil Honey I'm Home! on TSW) or illegal media (like Sad Satan on CGW). – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">Subreddit : Since May 2021, Qualitipedia has their own official subreddit called r/Qualitipedia. It's not really active and only has four moderators: LouBlu08 (u/LouBlu08), DarkMatterMan4500 (u/TheDuskLycanroc255), King Dice (u/The_Meme_Lady_69) and Zangler (u/Angler01). Another subreddit was founded by Bukkit one year later, which is called r/Quadpedia and has a more lax approach like community-related content and not wiki stuff. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">Deleted pages and discussions in WayBack Machine : Checking in web.archive.org and entering the name of any wiki will possibly find some differences between versions, how things used to be and some deleted pages like Brick Hill on CGW. – King Dice
 * <font style="color:blue">Qualitipedia's mascots : While there is no official mascot of the wikis, two proposals had been made: Recep-tan (by Trevor807) and Qualitipedia-chan (by King Dice). - Gilimaster69
 * <font style="color:blue">Zelda's Adventure page shown in an episode of Game Grumps' Reasons For Sucking : Dan Avidan from Game Grumps read the page about Zelda's Adventure from Crappy Games Wiki in the 4th part of the series "Reasons For Sucking". - PituckosTheCockatiel
 * <font style="color:blue">Why "Guys Look, A Birdie!" Exploded: Similar to the above, Lessons in Meme Culture showed the first pointer of the Teen Titans Go page in one of his episodes. - ZeusDeeGoose
 * <font style="color:blue">The first featured article : The Resident Evil: Revelations 2 recreated page on Awesome Games Wiki was featured on June 26, 2021. - RaymesisEvil

Below Abyss

 * <font style="color:#787870">The New Reception Wiki : Once a wiki on Miraheze created by Maddox. TNRW offered more freedom to creativity, allowing users to write pages of pretty much any topic.
 * <font style="color:green">Mar9122 : Former admin of Qualitipedia, actual pedophile and doxxer. Documented on Encyclopedia Dramatica. - TheArdArda
 * <font style="color:blue">Mar9122's Daily Stormer Rap : Mar decided to make a diss track on the Daily Stormer, rapping over a piano cover of Pewdiepie's Bitch Lassagna. While it is a site worthy of criticism, the song was not very well-received by Qualitipedia users. - ChessPiece21
 * <font style="color:blue">Fandom rip-off versions : TBA – TigerBlazer
 * <font style="color:blue">"That Woman" : In Grust's blogs and comments, he used to address Anita Sarkeesian as "That Woman" in a way so she'd stay irrelevant after her allegedly "going bankrupt".
 * <font style="color:blue">ThePackagedReviewer rant's comment section : Many users and ex-staff disgruntled with Qualitipedia can be found on the aforementioned video's comment section, expressing their bothers.
 * <font style="color:blue">raidarr's logo quest : raidarr has expressed the logo rebrand as one of the most challenging parts of his Qualitipedia vision becoming a reality.
 * <font style="color:blue">The Website wikis used to be purple : An archive of Fresh Websites Wiki exists with the background being purple instead of white. - Gilimaster69
 * <font style="color:blue">Celebdumb/Celebsmart : Two lists on the Shows Wikis that listed celebrities that committed actions that were deemed unfavorable/favorable by the reception wiki community. Originally created by Grust to list SJW and anti-SJW celebrities, the lists soon evolved to include celebrities who committed crimes or said genuinely offensive stuff as well. They were also highly controversial not just for demonizing/praising celebrities out of political bias, but also (in the Celebdumb list's case) for demonizing celebrities over minor infractions. Both lists were deleted after a DeviantArt journal brought the problems with the pages to the attention of the community. – Marxo Grouch
 * <font style="color:blue">Balan Wonderworld was Allistayrian's last page : After the Great Page Purge, Allistayrian nearly left the wikis completely after they felt they had done too much damage to the wikis. Before leaving, Allistayrian decided to finish the page on Balan Wonderworld on Crappy Games Wiki and was considered the last page made by the admin until his eventual return. – HawkeyeSolo
 * <font style="color:blue">The Dabman: When the Haters Dab Back page was added by the developers themselves : This page was added by the developers themselves back in the FANDOM days. - PituckosTheCockatiel
 * <font style="color:blue">Political corruption : More of accidental corruption as a result of the wikis' inefficient feedback in the words of raidarr. Some of the most determining events of the workplace and community were kept a secret from users. This left most people having to find out about said topics on their own, making the site notice of Qualitipedia wikis obsolete by not notifying everyone of the important choices that were being made and what was happening in the background. The whole dilemma is addressed with more detail in a little metaphor here. – Zangler

List of users who added new entries to the Iceberg:
 * Katsumi (1)
 * Gilimaster69 (4)
 * TheRealEldegoss (1)
 * Moisty
 * SuperStreetKombat
 * Marxo Grouch (1)
 * HawkeyeSolo (4)
 * Voxel Villager (1)
 * PituckosTheCockatiel (2)
 * ChessPiece21 (4)
 * TheArdArda (1)
 * ZeusDeeGoose (6)
 * RaymesisEvil (1)

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