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I am officially retired due to the constant instances of misconduct by Wikipedia editors. |
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I am officially retired due to the constant instances of misconduct by Wikipedia editors. I had planned on retiring once before as shown below after my first complaint relating to abuse of tools by admins ([[user:Bbb23]] and [[user:Drmies]] in particular) and problem editors who engage in politics, grudge-holding tactics, make decisions on basis of their friends, and vendettas against other editors, etc. The place has long been haunted by issues like this and I was ready to exit the first time around. However, after sweet comments from various editors to stay and that my contributions were valuable, such as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:AmericanDad86&diff=560308244&oldid=560292458]. I decided to hold out hope for Wikipedia and stomach the aforementioned behaviors. But these behaviors are simply too problematic on this website. On July 1 as soon as I realized I had to make a complaint against admin [[user:Bbb23|Bbb23]] for stalking, harassment, and abuse of tools, I knew that it was time to retire and had prepared myself for a poorly handled complaint. On top of that, I was told that my complaint had to be handled over at ANI where friends of the admin would likely be found at, so I was doubly prepared for a poor complaint. As predicted, the admin's friends went on the attack mere minutes after I posted the complaint calling me names and everything else, all as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=562488989&oldid=562488945], here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=562484964&oldid=562484804]; here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=562486564&oldid=562486452]. As the amount of bias for the admin was immediately evident and numbers were mounting in Bbb23's favor without even reviewing my complaint in question or even remarking on it, I responded with this retirement speech shortly thereafter [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=562486564&oldid=562486452], essentially thanking the users for confirming my suspicions that the complaint would be handled poorly and in exact accordance with the many complaints that swarm the Internet about this website. I knew the moment I had an issue with an admin it was time to retire but just wanted to make 100% I was right and it didn't take long for the users to confirm the many complaints made about Wikipedia. This is precisely why so many retire from this website and never come back. I am now a member of those retired users who never come back. I will spread word of my many complaints against the website, move on, and be done with it. [[User:AmericanDad86|AmericanDad86]] ([[User talk:AmericanDad86#top|talk]]) 04:46, 2 July 2013 (UTC) |
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Just some of the many websites that touch upon Wikipedia's steadily decreasing population, largely due to the complaints I've just alluded to above: here [http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/08/05/wikipedia-in-danger-as-contributor-numbers-drop/]; here [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how-wikipedia-is-running-out-of-admins/259829/], and here [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/25/wikipedia-editors-decline]. |
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==Near retirement before editors encouraged me to come back for "valuable" edits== |
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===My experience after contributing literally thousands of edits to wikipedia; edit the project at your own risk=== |
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Well, today I very bitterly say goodbye to Wikipedia and announce my final day editing for this project. Finding out that the many complaints I've heard about this website were all true was a real bummer because I gave it the benefit of the doubt and contributed many, many, many thousands of edits. I won't be contributing my services to the project anymore. I am a 26 year old graduate student into the final semester of my Master's degree program. I should be busy spending my time contributing to a task that I receive money and respect from in return for all my hard work and efforts. As it seems hard work and efforts are only rewarded with cliquishness, belligerence, ill reasoning and grief by this project I do not have the energy or time to further waste with this website. |
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I just like to call attention to the following links before I leave and encourage you all to take a look at not only the news sections but the posted complaints by many people [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how-wikipedia-is-running-out-of-admins/259829/], [http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/08/05/wikipedia-in-danger-as-contributor-numbers-drop/], and [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/nov/25/wikipedia-editors-decline]. This link is an article titled "Wikipedia in danger as contributor numbers drop." According to the websites in question, since 2007, the number of Wikipedia editors have been dropping rapidly like flies and it usually has to do with mindless reversions of edits and abuse of power and Wikipedia tools. |
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This is the very reason I am retiring from the site. On the Judge Judy wikipedia article, I reported on 3 heavily media-covered lawsuits in which Randy Douthit and Judge Judy were sued. [[User:Canoe1967]] later came along and reverted the edits with the reason that Judge Judy and Randy Douthit "were never sued but just the production companies." (as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547511596&oldid=547510965] and here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&diff=prev&oldid=547535920]) I argued that they indeed were sued and making it seem that only the production company was sued was not only false, but misleading and potentially harmful to the production companies in question as they really had nothing to do with why the lawsuits had been made. While Canoe provided no sources to his claims that these two had been sued and repeatedly reverted the edits, I repeatedly presented him with credible sources. Just two among the slews of sources I tried to provide this editor. |
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These were only of the few of the numerous sources I presented in attempt to reason with the editors that Judge Judy and Douthit had been sued as opposed to their production company. But in the end I was deemed in the wrong when an editor with page protection tool--who admitted to having past relations with Canoe in editing Wikipedia--not only protected the page on Canoe's edit as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547530099&oldid=547530017] and here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547530226&oldid=547530099], but then flat out reported me on the admin noticeboards for reversion (as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&diff=547515171&oldid=547509032] ) while neglecting the many reversions of the editor he has worked with on Wikipedia in the past, Canoe (Canoe's many reversions as shown here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547512978&oldid=547511902] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547515036&oldid=547514013] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547522025&oldid=547517548] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547529767&oldid=547528980] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547504946&oldid=547503277] |
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judge_Judy&diff=547507802&oldid=547505966] |
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After arguing my case with blatant evidence in the form of numerous websites at the admin noticeboards (as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&diff=547535972&oldid=547535920]), the below is what resulted. The blocking admin takes care to note on the noticeboards that he's going to let Canoe continue editing in despite his many reversions but makes sure to give him a gentle shame on you (as shown here [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Edit_warring&diff=547541277&oldid=547539205]) I will not even bother with an unblock request because I've tired of the cliquishness, politics, and abuse of tools that goes on with the website. I always heard complaints about it in off-site forums but chose to give it the benefit of the doubt. Having experienced just how bad it is firsthand, I can wholeheartedly vouch for all the complaints against Wikipedia and it's manner of handling reversions with little logic, cliquishness, abuse of tools, etc. I encourage new users to very seriously consider what they're getting into before editing this project. The site isn't rapidly lowering in users for no reason. As you can see by the above, logic and reason clearly do not win out on this website. |
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I have copy and pasted the above complaint to my word processor and will be sharing my experience here on Wikipedia with others and will also be sending this complaint to news websites so to spread the word on what editing here is like after loads of hard work and contribution. Goodbye and have a happy life! [[User:AmericanDad86|AmericanDad86]] ([[User talk:AmericanDad86#top|talk]]) 04:49, 29 March 2013 (UTC) |
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I am officially retired due to the constant instances of misconduct by Wikipedia editors.