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Hardly surprising. The last 50 edits to a Wiki I've made were to private Wikias. Why? Because I actually contributed something, and the paragraph I wrote about bugs in a Fallout: New Vegas location is still there in it's entirety, but with additions and conformations from users of other platforms.

That's how Wikipedia was supposed to work. Now every time I try to do something, I know it will be deleted over non-notability. It's not even a question anymore, it's just a matter of time.

Since we can break up articles into sub-topics very easily, there is absolutely no reason for this behaviour other than a love of power-tripping and some vague Wikipeida guidelines to fall back on. The editors are already in this thread, defending themselves. Nothing new, just the same "We don't want pages about your unknown indie band". Talk about baby & the bathwater.



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