User:Capmango

I am Glenn R. Wichman. Unlike many Wikipedians, I am not hiding behind any alias. I have given up on Wikipedia. When the revolution is complete, Wikipedia will just be one more piece of detritus on the barricades. In a misguided attempt at legitimacy, the community has determined that Wikipedia should consist only of information that someone else has been paid to write about, and hence information that can just as easily be found someplace else. Of course, at the moment Wikipedia has critical mass so it will take some time before its uselessness leads to its downfall. But the trend is there—useful articles are disappearing all the time, and useful information is disappearing from articles. How long will it be until there's nothing left?

Every time I wander into afd, my despair grows. There is a cadre of jihadists out there who truly believe that Wikipedia will be improved if we only cover the Monty Python sketches that can cite independent (paid) sources attesting to their notability. Are you someone who is curious about some non-notable sketch? Don't try to find anything out about it on Wikipedia. It appears that a lot of editors are purely subtractive; they aren't creating, they're just erasing. Wikipedia will be their masterpiece when there is nothing left (except articles on Brittney and Paris because someone got paid to write about them…).

Meanwhile, I will stay on to take care of my few articles until they also are removed, which I am sure they all will be, sooner or later.

well said... (Estoniankaiju (talk) 18:40, 20 May 2009 (UTC))