Wiki-paranoia has gotten so insane, a user can no longer edit his own page. For post 2015 updates on this user's activity, see User:Dekkappai Lives
I pause for reflection on the one-year anniversary of my last real edit, in which I started my last article here. I've lingered since then to see if the atmosphere which I found detrimental to contributors would improve. It has not. It has gotten much worse, and shows no sign of improvement. Every day we see struggling new contributors bullied off Wikipedia by self-appointed Wiki-cops quoting their own bizarre, entirely self-created rules; rules which they often exempt themselves from following. Longtime contributors, too, become fed up with the narrow-mindedness, inflexibility, childishness, the belligerence of these editors and Admins, who create and then defend their own definitions of "Notability", "Reliable Sources", "Biographies of Living Persons", etc. even their own politically-correct rules of how editors are to communicate with each other-- "Civility", "NPA", "AGF", etc. This Wikipedia-created, in-crowd jargon rarely bears even the slightest resemblance to the real-life terms. (We learn from the regulars of the "Biographies" cult-- possibly the most condescendlingly self-righteous of all the Wiki-cults-- for example, that biographies should not mention a person's ancestry, religion, or sexual identity.) Jimmy Wales publicly acknowledges and bemoans this loss of contributors, but here at Wikipedia he encourages the very sort of behavior that drives off the best contributors. And what is Wales' plan for retaining contributors? Make templates easier to use and cutesy "Wikilove" icons easier to give. Dekkappai (talk) 23:45, 9 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Retired
This user is no longer active on Wikipedia.
Anyone interested in contributing information to Wikipedia should look at this page. This is what will happen to your contributions once you have gone. Since there is no professional editorial oversight or supervision at Wikipedia, culture-warriors are free to go on crusades, driving off real contributors, and creating bias at will. Each article deleted below was far better-sourced and more notable than thousands of articles on, for example, silent film shorts, or the dozens of stubs on US short-story anthologies to which the deleting editors contribute. Don't waste your time at this troll-friendly site. IMDb accepts and rewards real work on film. Dekkappai Lives (talk) 22:58, 31 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]