User:Brainmuncher/Sandbox

While I admire the wikipedia project very much, I object to many things associated with it. I raise my voice, however small, here, and here only. My criticisms are as follows:


 * Abundance of cruft, especially trivia;
 * Wrongly advertising Featured Articles as being "perfect prose", or "compelling, even brilliant [prose]";
 * Journalistic prose, with heavy use of associated devices;
 * Wiki-language on talkpages;
 * Over-linked text, especially dates.
 * Randomly inserted ideas introduced by, for instance, "A noteworthy example of...";
 * Stubs with no more than two sentences — uninformative, pointless additions that survive merely on the promise of more to come;
 * Constant vandalism;
 * Self-appointed experts who write articles in accordance to their own interests (political groups, for instance);
 * Irrelevant chatter on talk pages;
 * Drama on talk pages;
 * Incorporating pop-culture (TV, computer games, modern books, etc.) with subjects that have nothing to do with it