User:Dottydotdot/thefeature

The Feature
Wikipedia is a mass of policies & guidelines, of projects & beaurocracies, of egos & vandals. Yet among that seething mass, there are the real gems-the useful article, the normal editor, the sane admin. These gems come about from a feature of human nature that would seem to have skipped some people.

When will vandals learn-the little edit they make to their school's article won't remain there for longer than a few minutes, the blanking of George Bush's page won't last longer than a few seconds &, then, they will be unable to make their third edit & participate in the largest collaborative endeavour ever.

When will the obnoxious editor learn that shouting at the admin who deleted their spammy page won't bring it back, that cussing everyone who edits "their" article will end up in being changed & that then replacing a username with "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" will end their ability to make any difference at all.

And finally, when will the burned out admin realise they need to take a step back; that deleting any new user's first edit because it's not perfect will drive them away, that banning users because they disagree with you will turn people against you & that pushing you POV to anyone who'll listen won't end up in it being implemented.

This is dedicated to all those hard-working IP's, users & admins, who have that feature, that feature that seems to have only been installed in the top of the range human-common sense.

Comments
This is a little work in progress of mine-for no specific purpose really! The aim is to expand it a bit, but not too much, & then within the passage link to examples of the things described happening. To that end, I'm very interested in any comments you have & any examples you can provide from diffs etc. Ideally, examples of ex-users would be nice! Thanks! dottydotdot (talk)