When 'deletionists' destroy the work people are putting in, it's not surprising when the people who have put that work into Wikipedia leave the site. There's only a finite amount of things that can be written about and as Wikipedia progresses, the articles that are created must become more and more obscure. But with those kinds of articles effectively banned from Wikipedia, the only editors it needs around are those that upkeep the existing articles.
I tried to improve their article on Pantheism but every month or so someone change the page to essentially say Pantheism = Atheism and there is nothing else to it. These 'deletionists' or 'revisionists' or w/e you want to call it turned me off wikipedia very early on. Most of the time it ends up in a flame war or, if you can convince someone your points are valid, it just gets deleted in a month. Ultimately everyone ends up with a handful of pages they have to 'babysit' and when a new editor comes in the
We're here to give you a computer, not a religion.
- attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga
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I tried to improve their article on Pantheism but every month or so someone change the page to essentially say Pantheism = Atheism and there is nothing else to it. These 'deletionists' or 'revisionists' or w/e you want to call it turned me off wikipedia very early on. Most of the time it ends up in a flame war or, if you can convince someone your points are valid, it just gets deleted in a month. Ultimately everyone ends up with a handful of pages they have to 'babysit' and when a new editor comes in the