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Editing wiki articles on Obsessions and Interests

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Myrtonos

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Has anyone here edited any wiki articles (be it on wikipedia or any other wiki) on one's special interrest(s), and if so have any of your edits been reverted.
Has anyone here ever engaged in a sustained edit war on any wiki articles on one's special interrests, and if so could it be the most of those opposing you aren't as intensely interrested as you are?
Has anyone here even been banned from editing articles on one's special interret(s), such as by wikipedia's arbitration committee?
 
Back when I was studying journalism I sometimes edited wiki articles to provide recent information. Since you know, we kinda got to the news first, lol. It had little to do with my special interests, but doing some research on the topics you're going to report about often brought me to wikipedia at which I figured; "yeah, that page is still in my recent history, might as well update it"
 
It's so frustrating when one corrects actual misinformation, and one's changes are reverted. I know exactly what kind of situation you're describing.
 
IMO many Wiki articles tend to have too great a potential for reflecting popular sentiment of either minorities or majorities rather than objective facts.

A process somewhat reminiscent of contest decisions rendered from American Idol. :eek:
 
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Yes, I edited the information on my home town on Wikipedia. Not really a town, it's an "unincorporated community", but I added one of the nicknames, corrected that it lay in two counties and not just where the area's post office lies, and added a camp we're known for the most by outsiders. I just checked it a moment ago and nobody has contested or changed my additions.
 
Ste11aeres said:
It's so frustrating when one corrects actual misinformation, and one's changes are reverted. I know exactly what kind of situation you're describing.
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And let's say that a group of editors take turns to revert changes you make to an article on your special interrest (or one of them), and after you revert the correction more than three times, one of them reports you for violating the three revert rule and so you get a block. None of the others get a block because each individual only reverted once or twice.

It might feel as if the other editors (particularly if they are not as intensely interrested in the topic of the article as you are) are gaming the system in such a way that gets you booted.
 
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