Talk:Zilla/@comment-26219504-20150505112801/@comment-25285745-20150506022255

This is really abrupt, and it's kind of unnecessary. The only people who actually care about it are fans of the 1998 film, many of whom (but not all) don't even care about the Godzilla franchise as a whole and only want to see the 1998 film and monster get counted as "Godzilla" by a fanbase that isn't overly fond of them.

This change isn't going to end the flame wars and stop users like this from coming on here and complaining. They will not rest until "Godzilla" 1998 is no longer chronicled on the Zilla page, "Cyber-Zilla," "Baby Zilla," and "Zilla Junior" are no longer page names, and so on. If anything, this sudden change in action will just make these users think they're accomplishing something and complain for more changes.

We only did this because Keith Aiken, who is a reliable person and whose input should be taken into account, said that "Godzilla 1998" was not Zilla simply because the 1998 film was still called GODZILLA and still had Godzilla's copyright. Yet at the same time, Matt Frank, who is also just as reliable and works with Toho, says name is the only distinction. The logical conclusion is that Toho renamed Godzilla 1998 "Zilla," but didn't cancel any of TriStar's trademarks, meaning that part of the old The Zilla Name Change page was in fact false. But we immediately overhauled everything from this one statement and subsequent pressure from users who came here to whine, and now we're bound to start baiting 1998 fanboys (not fans, but hardcore fanboys, some of whom actually resent the Japanese Godzilla because of their love of the 1998 film) to come here and keep pushing us to make changes until we're a more professional and less biased version of The American Godzilla Wiki.

Now I'm not saying the changes we've made aren't right and that we should undo them, but I'm becoming worried how we are just flip-flopping on stuff we've maintained for a long time just because of outside pressure. Sorry for my rant, but I am becoming legitimately concerned with how we are handling stuff like this recently. Call me paranoid or a purist, but I'm worried about where this is heading.