User:Nhprman/essayinclusionism

I am a Proud Inclusionist, an essay
I used to enjoy wikiing here on Wikipedia. Now, I don't, much, other than a bit of puttering around. And I probably will never again create an article here.

Wikipedia is a very unfriendly place, filled with rather nasty admins and editors who are determined to "cleanse" it of all "superfluous" content.

Lately, that includes, believe it or not, all photographs released as "publicity shots" by politicians, actors and musicians. What a serious waste of time to want to run around deleting press kit photos!! And what kind of loser do you have to be to make your endless "mission" on Wikipedia to be deleting photos of public figures that THEY THEMSELVES have released to the public? How pathetic do you have to be to spend all your time doing this?

Even when permission has been granted, some admins hound good editors, apparently for the sheer meanness of it.

The result will be a site denuded of photographic content except for "snapshots" of people, some of dubious quality, or no photographs at all of many, many public figures. That's going to extremes, but that's become the Wikipedia Way.

Wikipedia also enjoys enless legalese and chitter chatter about "process" issues, thus violating it's principle that Wikipedia is not about dispute. Examples such as this show how that foolish rules, endlessly debated, would make even a Talmudic Scholar say, "Why does this have to be so TEDIOUS and DIFFICULT?"

The fact that Deletionism is becoming rampant, and the Norm, here on Wikipedia, makes it impossible to accept that this encyclopedia any longer aims to be all-inclusive. Polcies and even "essays pretending to be policy" have been larded up with excuses for deletion, rather than allowing for the degree of inclusivism that the Founder had envisioned. Because of the Orwellian Curse of Deletionism, Wikipedia fails the test of inclusiveness, and has lost the right to call itself inclusive. (For example, )

In short, I am a proud Inclusionist, but I have learned my lesson: this is not the place for someone who wants to expand content here. Until it becomes such a place, I have better things to do, and other, more friendly Wikis where I can edit in peace.