User blog comment:Lasaro Ginjou/The Logia Issue/@comment-4080028-20180123051135

Hopefully I can clarify some things here, if that isn't a bother for you. Thing is, years ago on this wiki, we were starting to run into a conflict of interests so to speak; we wanted to allow our users to still make content however they pleased (so long as it fit within canon and the wiki's other rules,) but because of our strict rules, making Logia fruits was becoming more and more difficult over time. The more traditional Logia fruits that were made, such as the ones you prefer (the Kumo Kumo no Mi,) the harder it was to create an original Logia fruit that wasn't too similar to other established Logias.

Considering this was before the introduction of the Yuki Yuki no Mi, we had no idea it was allowable for two different Logia fruits to have similar yet differing abilities (the Yuki Yuki no Mi and the Hie Hie no Mi.) Therefore, we were still strictly following our own common sense and believing no two Logias can use the same standard element; for example, there could only be one ice/snow fruit. And so because of the compounding issues of dwindling sensible Logia fruit powers and the fact we weren't expecting the Yuki Yuki no Mi to be made, and because we still wanted to make it fair for other users to create their own Logia fruits, we felt it necessary to stretch the limitations as to what could be considered an "elemental force." At the time, our Devil Fruit Committee figured Logia fruits grant the power to become a naturally occurring elemental force or aspect of nature, so long as it wasn't a living body part. The end result is what you see now, with pages for Logia fruits involving things like gold and what have you. Desperate times call for desperate measures, you know?

Anyway, what we have here now is a byproduct of those times; when we were still trying to figure out the logic of One Piece and how to properly handle Devil Fruit powers on our own wiki. You bring up some very good points, and yet at the same time I worry for the infratsructure of the wiki if we went back and retroactively undid our stance on Logias. That might be simply me being cautious or paranoid, but I can't help but wonder what kind of mess or hassle might occur if we starting deleting or editing older fruits en masse.