Hello Wikipedians
Consider this an open letter about how many well-meaning individuals following Wikipedia's current rules and practices take good content and trash it. I am a new editor and documenting my experience trying to improve Wikipedia on a single subject of 'open source labs'. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it sent me to OSU Open Source Lab. I knew there were other labs at other universities so I wrote an OSL disamb page, which I copied the code for below. In my opinion I did a good job - and was trying to show the breadth of the subject and hit most of the major labs at universities and list some of the company ones. Now my work has been eviscerated - by the following things happening:
I do appreciate the last two - in that at least it preserves the work - and I can work on it and make it better.
For the most part the existing editors did not make the pages better or correct the things they found wrong (e.g. add external references etc). The pages were simply tagged, deleted or moved.
However, worst of all: