User:Rcooley

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I quit. Wikipedia has been a huge waste of my time, and the policies are geared to favor even far more time wasting than I've already experienced. It's clear to me (and many others) that Wikipedia has passed its peak, and will eventually devolve into a lot of bias and misinformation, from those who have the most time to waste single-mindedly pushing their views. Not to mention the hordes of well intentioned but ignorant yet highly self-confident amateurs.


[edit] Wikipedia

Ah, Wikipedia... where one person finds the food, a second person does all the cooking, and then 500 argue about how much salt to add. (Feb 27, 2008)

...I have stood on the shoulders of midgets. Finally I just got angry and set out to do the hard work of getting the ladder myself. (Mar 18, 2008)

For every expert, there are hundreds of fools... and it only takes 2 of them to form a consensus.

There are many dark, scary and lonely corners on Wikipedia. (Apr 03, 2008)

[edit] My Contribs

Mainly a list for my own future reference...

Why so much multimedia? I don't know. Perhaps because articles about multimedia here on Wikipedia are just, by and large, in a very sorry state, and I couldn't ignore them. Perhaps by starting on Theora I was thrust into it. Indeed, research from one subject often leads into lots of work on a dozen related articles. My inclination may change at any time, and I could just leave multimedia behind. Seems more likely I'll just get fed up with the pro-vandalism policies, ridiculously distributed islands of important information, and clumsy interface here, and just leave Wikipedia all together. Who knows? Rcooley (talk) April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Spammers

I've noticed articles on radio, Shortwave and DXing in particular get TONS of linkspam. Curious. What's worse is that NOBODY CARES. Wikipedia stagnates and rots if there aren't a horde of proactive, dedicated volunteers working tirelessly to improve every single article. It's a doomed model.

I hate Wikipedia's policy of non-intervention, opting instead to thrust a LOT more work upon the editors, rather than making it quick and easy to temporarily ban those obviously unproductive user accounts and IP addresses. Requiring an account to edit would be a huge improvement. The "Undo" button could be a LOT more robust, too, saving me plenty of time (Rollback is not perfect, but a significant improvement that should be available by default for all users). Even better would be a buffer of several days before changes show on the main page, to keep things static and reliably accurate. Rcooley (talk) 00:50, 20 March 2008 (UTC)