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[shoeler]

looking through the wiki, i found a couple things that really bother me, like intense speculation stated as fact, and vice versa.

1. I think we can agree that the operator is slenderman. i don't think we need to have the qualifier every time we mention the operator that "he's presumably slenderman but we don't know".

2. On the alex page, it's stated that alex sent the entry 26 tape and text to jay, which, besides being extremely unlikely, has no evidence to support it whatsoever.

3. Brian and seth being named "parties of interest", even though they've appeared or been mentioned in like 3 entries combined.

4. I never followed just another fool, but i feel like that's separate enough from MH that it shouldn't really be mentioned.

i dunno. i feel like some things i'm being really nit-picky, but, taking the viewpoint of someone new to the series, the wiki is still a little confusing, and i'd be a little hesitant to send someone new to the series there to get fully up to speed.

[JKatkina]

[Phenom]

I was looking through the pages and some of the pages still reference the old "Slender Hunter" gamejack.

[JKatkina]

[TheBioGuy]

Hey people! I go on spring break this Friday, so I'll finally get the time to do #23 some justice. I'll work hard. Especially since it's totally one of my favorite entries!

[theonewhoquestions]

[Zaden]

Hey, I was wondering if I could become a member of the Marble Hornets wiki and help contribute. I'm a very anal proofreader with OCD who loves little details and is strong in grammar and logic.

I would like to begin adding and correcting information.

My user name is the same.

On that subject, on the page called Comprehensive Timeline, is says,

"November 5, 2009: totheark posts a response to Entry 17: the Signal Video. J is second-guessing his decision to return to the house.

November 2, 2009: J uploads Entry 17. However, he doesn't remember that Entry happening. He is going back to the house soon."

However, both the page for Signal and YouTube say that Signal was uploaded on November 4, 2009. It was on the fifth that Jay tweeted the link to Signal.

~Zaden

[Masky]

The Slender Man article needs a lot of work. It needs to be changed to The Operator, needs some actual screenshots of him from the entries instead of those Something Awful photos, and on the Appearances section, it's missing a few entries such as Admission, 23, and 26.

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[shoeler]

completely disagree. i feel like the operator is just MH's take on slenderman, which differs from tribe twelve's, which differs from EMH's, and so on.

the operator and slenderman are interchangeable. they're synonymous. like calling tim masky or masky tim. to not say this is a slenderman ARG is completely incorrect.

[YamaKami]

I agree that the terms "Slenderman" and "the Operator" are interchangeable, at least on these forums, because we are here to discuss MH, and so we all know the entity we are talking about. But there needs to be a clear distinction on the wiki between the Slenderman of the mythos in general and the Slenderman specific to MH, aka the Operator. So maybe the list of appearances should be moved to the Operator section, along with some screenshots of him from Marble Hornets, like Masky suggested.

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[awakeasaurusrex]

Here's what I'd ask: why give a full page to Slender Man that is devoted almost entirely to concepts from outside of the game?

Make "Slender Man" a subsection of the main Operator page and include a brief writeup in there covering the origin of the concept, its influence on MH, and toss in a disclaimer that the MH guys have their own interpretation of the myth - hence their use of the term "Operator" - and that no Slendy-related material that doesn't originate within Marble Hornets itself should be taken as shedding any light on Marble Hornets because the creators aren't bound to sticking to someone else's canon.

At the moment the Slender Man page seems to be almost entirely devoted to two things:
- References to non-MH sources like the Victor Surge pics and Just Another Fool, which should be purged from the wiki entirely because they're not about Marble Hornets.
- Redundant information such as a list of sightings of Slendy in MH, which should really be on the Operator page.

For that matter, the Just Another Fool page needs purging. It reproduces a bunch of JAF posts and gives absolutely no insight into Marble Hornets itself. There are plenty of resources around that are intended to give general overviews of all Slendy side stories - the Slender Review, Slenderbloggins, and the (excellent) compileTRUTH are what comes off the top of my head, plus there's the Slender Man boards on here and on Slender Nation.

Why is the wiki devoting a whole (lengthly) page to Just Another Fool and not any other of the dozens of slenderblogs out there? That might - *MIGHT* - have made sense when the wiki started out and we just had MH and JAF and that was it, but at this stage there's absolutely no point including it. It needs to be deleted and all the pages relating to it need to be deleted, because at the moment it's misleading people into believing JAF has actual official connections to MH, and that's not true of any side stories.

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[shoeler]