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| Name | Timwi | |
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| Wikipedian since | 8 Jun 2003 | |
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This user doesn't use any userboxes (other than this one) to describe his skills, interests, hobbies and other attributes because he would have to stack millions of them in order to satisfy his irrational perfectionism and desire for completeness. |
Hi. I am Timwi. As somebody with a desire to create and maintain rather than to destroy and erase, I am no longer welcome on Wikipedia with its overtaking by the rampant deletionists in the 2010s and have consequently no longer participated since. There is only a single person I know who continues to contribute regularly, and even they are distraught and frustrated by the constant fights being fought just to keep stuff that people have worked hard to create. Literally everybody else I know doesn’t even bother because “it all gets deleted anyway”.
The destructive consequences of this have been summarized by Gwern in their article, In Defense of Inclusionism more eloquently than I ever could. I highly recommend this to any currently active Wikipedians, especially those who are actively going around to delete everything they can like they’re on a mission to cleanse the planet of information.
Wikipedia will never be healthy or useful until this issue is fundamentally addressed.