Deletionism and inclusionism, and a lot of problems with Wikipedia in general, are related to people with OCD editing Wikipedia. People with OCD are going to be very reluctant to not apply a rule 100% of the time even if the rule itself describes subcases where you’re not supposed to apply it 100% of the time.
This is on top of problems with people using deletionism or inclusionism as excuses (because it’s a lot easier to get your way if you can point to a rule). And the political bias, which is real to the point where you should not trust anything on Wikipedia that is a live political topic on the Internet, because there will also be such people on the Internet editing the Wikipedia article and it’s a tossup as to who wins.
Deletionism and inclusionism, and a lot of problems with Wikipedia in general, are related to people with OCD editing Wikipedia. People with OCD are going to be very reluctant to not apply a rule 100% of the time even if the rule itself describes subcases where you’re not supposed to apply it 100% of the time.
This is on top of problems with people using deletionism or inclusionism as excuses (because it’s a lot easier to get your way if you can point to a rule). And the political bias, which is real to the point where you should not trust anything on Wikipedia that is a live political topic on the Internet, because there will also be such people on the Internet editing the Wikipedia article and it’s a tossup as to who wins.
It’s probably worth mentioning that 2⁄3 of all Wikipedia contribution are done by its 1000 most active users, with single persons like this guy doing millions of edit. I suspect that people with OCD are a supermajority among Wikipedia greater contributors.