Wikipedia needs a new policy to fix this problem. Riffing on the popular kids game, with an older name that was a bit racist against the Chinese, I'm going to call it Phone Game Editing.

A dynamic where a WP article gets pruned, by one well-meaning but uninformed editor after another. Slowly making it less informative, and eventually inaccurate and misleading. Ending with this now-degraded article being proposed for deletion, and its history with it.

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#Wikipedia #PhoneGameEditing

As with so many WP articles related to the fediverse, so much crucial information has been pruned out of the article covering StatusNet that it's arguably become misleading;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statusnet

Articles seem to comes to the attention of... certain editors. Who know nothing about the subject, and worse, seem to consider accuracy irrelevant to the quality of WP articles. They add nothing, but prune anything not spelled out in the existing references.

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#Wikipedia #PhoneGameEditing

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