User:Botteville
I'm retiring now from Wikipedia after 20 years from 2005. The time has not been wasted, especially in my own education. This is a sort of picture of the academic world without the controls of the big organizations, the universities, the publishing houses, the foundations, the private organizations. I understand now why they are there, which I never did before.
At this point Wikipedia is dominated by edit warring, which it has no real means of controling. Edit warring runs up the time you have to spend to get a useful result. There is a good range of articles but they are all stubs or starting articles. If you try to get them beyond that you encounter the article czars. These collaborators operate under the banner of "consensus." They are quite shameless. They tell any lie to interfere in your development of the article. Many have obvious ulterior motives. The dictum of "good faith" allows them to quash any resistance.
But you know, this changes the character of making a contribution to Wikipedia. I wanted to work on the encyclopedia, not conduct edit wars. I'm sorry, James. You seem to have lost control of the thing. I need my time now, can't waste it on wars. Moreover, the rules force one's English into a narrow mold that is not exactly English.
Now, I know the administration does not want to hear this. James Wales wants to keep everything positive. Fine. But, keeping things positive for the sake of keeping them positive isn't my bag. I got other things I need to do with my time than edit war.
I'm keeping my login for now. If you, the administration, disagree wih that, take it away forthwith. Please don't send me messages. I don't intend to log in very often. Ciao.