A new job and other family related constraints have limited my ability to put the time into this project in the manner I used to. I'll still be around, just less. Please leave me a message if you'd like!
Not anyone can edit. Only special people (basement elites) can edit important articles.
Wikipedia is home to left-wing slacktivists (basement elites) that spend their time reverting edits they disagree with or are unflattering to other left-wingers.
Basement elites pretend that Wikipedia is objective, when in reality nearly everything on the site is subjective with the exception of very hard facts such as the score of the World Series. They pretend that there are concrete rules about what is allowed. In reality, certain pages are selectively enforced, with many pages existing with no sources at all. Basically, when a basement elite gets bored they go around looking for edits to revert that they disagree with or just want to show their "power."
Most people go to Wikipedia looking for trivia, because trivia is fun. Although Wikipedia says it doesn't do trivia, thousands of pages rightfully contain it because one of the basement elites hasn't noticed it yet or likes the topic personally so they allow it.
Only left-wing sources are allowed.
"Conservative" journalists, organizations, and other entities must always be identified as such on Wikipedia. However, no one should ever be labeled as "liberal." For example, Tucker Carlson is a conservative journalist, but Don Lemon is just a journalist. (This has improved recently, to WP's credit.)
Left-wing sources are immutably venerable.
In practice, left-wing sources don't actually exist, because a left-wing source is just a venerable source.
Since left-wing sources don't usually like to talk about sources and people that expose them, those people are not noteworthy.
If the left-wing sources are engaged in a cover-up (which is frequent), the covered-up event is not noteworthy and did not happen.
If one or two of the left-wing sources actually covers something unflattering to left-wingers, it still isn't notable enough.
Wikipedia is Orwellian.
Wikipedia maintains the absurd premise that editors edit in WP:GOODFAITH. As we know, people edit subjectively, selfishly, and with agendas.
Wikipedia pretends that WP:GOODFAITH is not a guise for basement elites to control others.
WP:ELITE actually used to be about not letting basement elite editors control everything. But they realized that's exactly what they want, so that's not what it is about anymore.
Some pages can be informative and fun if not ruined by a basement elite.
For your efforts in counter-vandalism work. Keep it going! Volten001☎ 19:26, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
The Recent Changes Barnstar
Let's be real, you've deserved a few of these for a while now. Hey man im josh (talk) 14:40, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar
thanks for letting me know i made a mistake! Super why fan (talk) 14:37, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
The Anti-Spam Barnstar
Thank you for the work that you do against spammers and vandals. It helps to make Wikipedia a better place. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:32, 9 September 2022 (UTC)
The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
I don't leave these barnstars very often (and I really ought to do so more often); I guess after 15 years of service, you tend to not be left feeling impressed as often as you did in the past. However, today I make an exception! While many users here do not believe that welcoming new editors and users to the project yields any benefit whatsoever (and, yes... if you're manually going to each new account in the user creation log and blindly sending welcome wishes to every single one of them, the potential benefit gained vs all that time you spent doing so will be extremely diminished). However, I've always taken the time to welcome each new user who creates an account and as part of the Wikipedia education program and their online course. If anything, we know that these users will be editing here; they'll tasked with learning how to navigate the site, locate important policies, and contribute to Wikipedia as part of their course. Now, onto Spf121188... I know when Spf121188 is online, because I'll be patrolling through the user creation log, find a new user with their user page created, see that they're part of the Wikipedia education program, and BAM - Spf121188 has already beaten me to welcoming them to the project. When Spf121188 first asked me about it and expressed interest, I though maybe they'd be interested for a little while If I were lucky... They'd spend time welcoming education users for maybe a week, and then fade away to somewhere else after their interest diminishes, but NO! Spf121188 has been consistently and enthusiastically welcome these new users for well over a month now, and still has the same enthusiasm as when they first asked me about it. To Spf121188, I award you this barnstar for the thankless time you spend toward welcoming these users inside, and despite knowing that it'll likely yield no personal benefit to yourself personally. However, if even just a small effort on our part makes any kind of difference to one of these users, or if it causes even just one to want to stick around and become a contributor here, then who the hell am I to tell someone that what they're doing is worthless - it isn't. Thank you for being a part of this project. You make a difference here, and more than you realize or notice. :-) ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs) 19:47, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
The Editor's Barnstar
Glad you're back editing :) BTW, I was the person who sent you this barnstar!TailsWx 18:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
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