The theory that I find most credible as an explanation of the
decline of the community since 2007 is the end of the "SoFixIt" culture and
its replacement by the templating culture which some consider newbie biting
and which has lead to hundreds of thousands of articles disfigured by
garish templates calling attention to problems that somebody hopes someone
else will understand and fix. By WereSpielChequers, [1].
I have a couple of articles about my employer on my watchlist and occasionally edit them. I am not paid for that, and, in fact, I do not think my employer can recognize my user name. I never made major edits in any of them.
I had to create an alt account, Ymblanter_alt, due to some difficulties i encountered. I am not planning to edit using that account.