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I am a published writer and photographer living in Sydney, Australia.
I have semi-retired from Wiki because I am sick to death of the stalkers, wankers and assorted idiots who haunt this place and ruin it for everyone else. Sardaka (talk) 08:07, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
At the moment I have semi-returned, still doing some editing and at the same time keeping an eye on my stalkers.
If I wanted to make one suggestion for improving Wiki, it would be that "editors" (too complimentary a term for a lot of them) should not be able to access the contributions of other editors, because that's how the stalkers do their stalking. There is no serious reason why any of us needs to follow someone else's contributions, and it is being constantly abused by the idiots.
My other suggestion would be that we should not be able to have a watch list, because this too is being abused by the assorted stalkers and idiots. What these people do is that they put every article on a particular subject on their watch list; then, as soon as someone makes an edit to one of those articles, they pounce on it and proceed to pass judgment on it. If it doesn't completely meet with their approval, they undo what the other person did. "What's wrong with this"? you might say. What's wrong with it is that the idiots develop a proprietorial attitude towards that group of articles and start acting as if they are in charge of them. Everything has to meet with their approval and other editors often can't get a word in edgewise. If someone has a special interest in a particular article, they can go and look at it anytime. The watch-list system is making it too easy for the idiots to behave as if they are in charge of various articles, eg the Sydney suburb articles (they know who they are).
One of the worst examples is Naturopathy, which is controlled by a cabal of little people who obviously think they own the article, and who can be extremely unpleasant towards anyone who tries to change anything. Just try making some changes to this article and see what happens.