User:Wrong Side of the Bed

I've been ferreting 'bout here for years anonymously. And because I'm of a grumpy proclivity at times, what better than calling myself Wrong Side of the Bed? While I waste a lot of my efforts on wikis, I have enormous arguments with people I know who don't wiki. After all, what is with so many editors thinking they know better than the hapless author who bothers to add the material over which the editors feast like vultures to a carcass? I can't answer that one. After all, I've been known to do it myself and I'll admit there is an element of satisfaction to polishing something to a better read at times. But then again, I'm also an author and despise the ravaging of efforts I've spent eons shaping, only to have some other more superior sucker waste their time deconstructing my construction. Nor can I give any real answer as to why it's OK to rely on wikis for information. Are many monkeys writing Shakespeare safer than one Shakespeare? Nope. But all in all, we need to start somewhere and hope for the best, or we're lost at sea. Humanity stands at a turning point where we can either keep trying to get this collaboration thing right, or we can just keep arguing that "anyone can edit a wiki so it must be crap". I prefer the line that since anyone can edit a wiki, it's likely that someone's noticing the crap. Experts, on the other hand, get so entrenched in believing they're right that people don't always notice when they're not. We can but try.