Forum:What is okay to rewrite?

This is a continuation of a conversation originally began at Talk:Gimel Daleth. The discussion references changes I made to the article that Gimel, the subject and original contributor, reverted. Here's a link to the reversion.

Basically, I'd like to hear from the community about what other people should and should not be allowed to do when editing articles where they're not the primary contributor, particularly character articles.

My opinion is that all pages belong to the SW1ki (and MUSH) community. Your character article(s) doesn't really belong to you. That doesn't mean that you don't have a say in what can and cannot be changed. Articles are required to be accurate and as the primary and best source of information on your character(s), other people need to defer to you on your character's background. For instance, nobody can rewrite my character article and change my homeworld to Chandrila, because it's just not true. However, I believe things like formating, grammatical stylings, etc. are fair game for others to improve on. "Improve" is obviously an ambiguous term. Deciding what is and is not an improvement is something left to consensus, but the door is open for other people to make changes. I believe that while some things are up to you alone, you can't control everything about your articles. -- Xerxes 22:03, 15 March 2007 (UTC)