The NPOV and sourcing rules are what they are (quixotic, doomed to fail), but one thing that I think doesn't get enough attention is the violence they do to sty

The NPOV and sourcing rules are what they are (quixotic, doomed to fail), but one thing that I think doesn't get enough attention is the violence they do to style. Wikipedia can at best read like the output of a really good text summarization algorithm; usually it's even worse. I love reading Wikipedia, and I love it even more when I come across gems like "the midget commits bowel movements" [1] that gets edited down from the delightfully insane to the beigest beige. I am aware that looking for reading pleasure in Wikipedia is a fool's errand, and I'm not suggesting that anything change; but the relationship between the Wikipedia house style and their rules about "objectivity" is perhaps under-appreciated. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trapped_in_the_Closet&diff=prev&oldid=436411213 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trapped_in_the_Clo...