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High status admins who bite newcomers with impunity, don't give a damn about systemic bias, ignore their own rules (invoking "Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy"...
by ern 3y ago
High status admins who bite newcomers with impunity, don't give a damn about systemic bias, ignore their own rules (invoking "Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy"...except when it suits them) - I find the site increasingly infuriating.
On the other hand newly minted accounts (a few months old) seem to be getting involved in arcane things by nominating articles for deletion, despite having flimsy edit histories and limited experience on Wikipedia, possibly to build credibility for adminship in future. A worst case scenario is that the long-in-the-tooth admins finally let go, and these dodgy noobs gain adminship.
I've kept a clean sheet over a multi-decade editing career, so I can't be dismissed as a crank who doesn't understand the project, but there needs to be some sort of reform.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoSounds like you'd make a great admin! How much are we willing to bet that you'd be (even more) cynical within 12 months though? This time not at the admins, but at the kinds of weird editors you'd have to deal with. %-) That said, I haven't kept an eye on wikipedia (let alone admins, let alone high status ones) for a while know. I know that sometimes they don't get enough pushback and start making mistakes that way.
- underseacables 3y agoThis was what I ran in to. Very aggressive editors and trolls who demanded things be written in a certain way. Edits to "their" articles trigged them and they would then edit your edit. It got ridiculous