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Surviving in Frankenwiki
Okay, I'm back from my latest 24-hour persecution, and I realize how the mediation request merely subjected the article to more ""Thought police"" rather than encouraging civilized solutions to problems.  My mind is spinning in 100 directions. I really dread any continued judgment by a ""jury of sneers"" so I doubt I would participate in any forums of that type. Some articles become hopeless chaos, when the masses descend and start hacking with no concept of the topic (""Harry Potter what?""). One of the worst hatchet jobs, to any article, was with ""Search engine"" where the technical details conflicted with the general concept of searching for ""stuff"" and people kept deleting those excessive technical parts about ranking pages (not unlike avoiding text about Low copy number DNA, fingerprints, or luminol of Italian fruit juice). It was another case of ""too many kooks spoil the broth"" and hence, that implies a long-term issue: articles need a limited ""roster of active editors"" to limit meddling, perhaps have an active count, and when a editor abandons an article, then space opens for another editor to join the roster. The current myth that 500 people can be allowed (to ""adjust"" an article) is what led to the ""Search engine"" article becoming a wasteland of chaotic text. Again, it boils down to how should a person choose which articles to develop, versus when they are wasting their expertise in mud-pit articles. It might be much better to develop 100 rarely-trampled articles, rather than fight a POV-stampede within a single article. Plus, it is unsettling to realize they're reading every word of your talk-page and plotting the next insult. I could not, in good conscience, join in a forum associating with haters, because it is agreeing to make a pact with the devil. -Wikid77 "