User:Mujinga/essays/AWR

Overall wikipedia is an amazing resource. That’s not to say that there aren’t times when it goes a bit wrong...

Hoaxes
There’s the hoaxes for example which personally i think are great, if not necessarily useful for an encyclopedic project. At least it keeps people on their toes and makes sure we all remember not to trust what we read here 100%

Edit wars
Then there’s the slow burning edit war over at LARC which is a bit frustrating, since it seems that if the edit war is slow enough it escapes sancton. And a person (or people) with a grudge can hold that grievance as long as they want. At the same, now the war has lasted a decade my mood has softened somewhat. Pigs we get what pigs deserve (see Brexit).

Devious moves
Recently i was flabbergasted to see Social centres in the United Kingdom gone. When i eventually found out the reasons why, it was because someone had decided the page was better merged with their new pet project autonomous social centres. Merging to me means combining information. For them it meant trashing the entire page, in a way which could be done without a deletion discussion. And then denying there were any decent secondary sources references (when in fact there were 20), which was bizarre to say the least.