User:Wuerzele

16 May 2024
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As of 2023^[update], I remain concerned that WP has no handle on WP:POV editors and paid advocates on wikipedia, who undermine the neutrality of a page, who will manufacture controversy, who spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, who isolate critical content and critical editors by divide and rule tactics, and who don't shy away from incivility and social undermining.

The idea of self-policing, expecting editors to play nice and recuse themselves if they have a conflict of interest, remains neither realistic nor enforceable.

Thanks to investigative journalism, picked up in the WP: Signpost by HaeB and Andreas Kolbe, for example here WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/In_the_media, the community occasionally gets reminded, how WP is instrumentalized and how damaging the issue is.

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As of 2021 This user has been on Wikipedia for 11 years, 3 months and 21 days. 30,000+ This user has made more than 30,000 contributions to Wikipedia. This user is one of the 3000 most active English Wikipedians of all time. A fact from the article Klein's line, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Maria Radner, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Ren Jianxin (businessman), which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Debra Marquart, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Utako Okamoto, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Gwen Grant Mellon, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Lewis E. Braverman, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. A fact from the article Meron Estefanos, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. - This user likes to translate and proofread articles from German to English. This user has signed the Neurotypical / Autism spectrum interaction pact