h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

... it's removed elsewhere. Okay, so that means it might be removed here too, but hey. Maybe it won't be removed either place. http://h2g2.com/dna/h2g2/brunel/F47997?thread=8286286&post=110499188#p110499188 Possibly it's a bit OTT, but this has been boiling up for a long time. And there we have it. The truth about why the change has happened. Gnomon wants it, so Gnomon gets it. "I've always felt bad telling American writers that they have to rewrite their well-written entries in what is for them a foreign spelling." "I'm sub-editing more than 50% of the entries at the moment. I'd like not to have to change spellings." I, I, I... "Anyway, it was discussed and it was decided and that is the end of it." Except clearly it's not as I see the thread has rumbled on. I'm glad I can finally say it outloud. Gnomon is the reason I won't write any more entries for this site. I'd had serious concerns about his possessive attitude to entries, changing things to be wrong, finally changing them back but insisting he's still right but can't prove it () and frankly I don't trust him with any of my entries. I had gone so far as to contact the old Editors before now with my worries and I know other Researchers have also had concerns, and when I heard he'd been put up as an Editor for the Guide I knew it was all over for me to write for this site. I won't go so far as to remove my entries(which I have been told is now possible but am not sure) but it's all about Gnomon, really. *he* doesn't like the Guidelines so he's changed them. *he* really can't be bothered to change the spellings on the entries he edits. *his* attitude has slowly become all seeing, all powerful and he'll do what he likes. Which is a shame because I used to consider us friends before this attitude got so bad. Or maybe it was always there, he just couldn't 'set it free' until the BBC's caretaking dropped to a certain level. After all, he's often said (rather pompously) that he was already writing the Guide *himself* (yes, all by himself) when he found the site. Well, now he's got it all to himself. I've tried to write this so it doesn't break the rules, I have nothing to say about Gnomon personally, just the way I see h2g2 being treated like one person's personal playground and now he appears to own it.