Talk:Rick Scaia
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You guys both smell like two unbathed monkeys making love to the strains of aa one armed grasshopper. Oh yeah, and just about the biggest losers in the history of loss.
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[edit] Eh?
I just reverted a description of Scaia's writing style back to the original, but here is what had been posted:
Scaia is known for his bland and often non-offensive writing style, which includes little to no criticism about the wrestling industry and forced praise for the product, no matter how good or bad it may be. Scaia's supporters have defended his writing style by arguing that he provides an alternative towards the more more "negative" columns of many writers on the internet writing community.
As a result of this, Scaia becoming a somewhat controversial figure in the internet wrestling community and the subject of much criticism by his fellow online writers, including Chris Hyatte and Scott Keith.
I feel like the first comment is provably false, and can anyone source the second part? -Umdunno 21:12, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
One, the original thing was POV and HIGHLY biased with ZERO proof towards the claims (I'm assuming the original masturbationfest of a Wikipedia entry was written by Scaia himself to prop up his feeble standing inside the internet wrestling community, given that he's largely been forgotten since Wrestleline got shut down on him and Online Onslaught failed to become the next big thing in terms of being a high profile website). So I deleted the entire thing and replaced it with a NPOV paragraph explaining Scaia's writing style and standing line from Scaia's fans regarding why they like it (IE it's non-negative from other writers who tend towards actually state their opinion and criticize the product) and stating why people don't like it, which is a big thing since Scaia and his blandness and inability to give an actual opinion has made him a laughing stock in the IWC.
Secondly Keith and Hyatte BOTH have been critical of Scaia. Keith was critical of Scaia during the period of December 1999-March 2000 when WCW was going to hell in a handbasket and lost the Radicals to the WWF, commenting and mocking Scaia's constant defense of how good WCW was at the time when the company had hit rock bottom in all respects.
And Hyatte? Where to begin, since Hyatte has rightfully been Scaia's biggest critic and the only one who's gone on the record as to rightfully stating how irrelevant Scaia has become over the last couple of years? Oh, how about the article where Hyatte talked about and utterly NAILED Scaia's downward spiral in terms of becoming irrelevant in the IWC after Wrestleline closed and he opened up Online Onslaught, a website no one hardly ever reads? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BakerBaker (talk • contribs).
[edit] Change it back.
Just change it back you baby....
Honestly is this how you get your jollies? By changing Wiki articles into blatant lies. Loser.
[edit] Re: eh
"I feel like the first comment is provably false, and can anyone source the second part? -Umdunno 21:12, 9 September 2006"
You're right on the former. As to the latter, Hyatte has definitely been critical of Scaia, but it's hardly relevant or trustworthy. For one, some internet wrestling writers evidently get off on picking inane fights and carrying out feuds with other writers. Panning one writer because another doesn't like him is both biased and silly. It has no bearing on the quality of another person's work. Especially in Hyatte's case, as he repeatedly posted chat transcripts with "Rick Scaia" that were either made up out of whole cloth or featured him chatting with a Scaia impersonator.
[edit] Sources
Even one would be nice. There are none right now, especially for the critique in the second section, which definitely needs to be sourced, as it is currently a statement with nothing to back it up whatsoever.
Also, note that Scaia referred to this article in today's column and suggested the Colbert method of editing: that fans just make a hash out of it. (Yay.) I just work here, but folks need to keep an eye on that too. Tony Fox (arf!) 03:49, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- I'll just check this article for the next week or so and keep reverting. Urgh, I'm really annoyed. -Umdunno 22:31, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Compromise?
I tried to edit the beginning of the "writing style" to reflect both schools of thought on his writings. Seems like a decent enough compromise, everyone's views are represented, everyone's happy, no?-- bd (talk to me) (watch me) 08:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Editorializing
I just nuked most of the Writing Style section because it was editorializing, with no sourcing whatsoever (as with the rest of the article), and I suspect will continue to be nothing but a target. If someone wants to replace that with links to verifiable sources so we meet the guidelines of the site with the article, then fire away. Tony Fox (arf!) 19:27, 25 September 2006 (
[edit] Style?
Read his stuff on OnlineOnslaught, he does criticize alot, espicially alot of un-needed towards Cena.
- If you read a lot of his work, you'll notice he basically thinks that Cena the person is a nice guy, but Cena the character acts like an annoying toddler. Orton, on the other hand... 64.180.236.193 08:27, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
