@latenightblog I have not run into this admin, but I did cut back my editing years ago after too many arguments with deletionists. “He judged #ReliableSources based on whether they shared his viewpoint, and when that wasn’t enough, he built the Reliable Sources himself. He made sweeping changes to the site with wildly insufficient explanations, then guarded them with decades of built-up knowledge of how to frustrate opponents and wear them down. He demonstrated step-by-step that he was correct: Wikipedia’s processes really were insufficient to deal with a sufficiently motivated #BadFaith actor with friends willing to cover for him, and each time the site slapped him down he simply found another way to pursue his bitter mission.”
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“The idea of a democratic, leaderless group has calcified into one where an old guard determined to weaponize process act as de facto leaders of everything they can bludgeon others away from.” #Wikipedian #NPOV #WikipediaAdmin #DavidGerard