The fact of the matter is, over the course of several years, a band of committed idiots has systematically and successfully attempted to ruin Wikipedia for virtually all of the purposes that I ever use it for. Hardline interpretations of policies well beyond what they were ever intended to cover and implementation with no thought to the bigger picture have effectively rendered Wikipedia a useless resource on any topics in the humanities beyond what would be covered in an introductory class, and coverage of fiction has managed to spectacularly decline to thread the needle between obsessive fannish trivia and completely ignoring topics, managing to do one or the other, but never actually offering good coverage.

In other words, for anything I would want to use this project for on a regular basis, it has failed and failed spectacularly. A pity. It was a good idea eight years ago when I started, and I miss that project like hell. Phil Sandifer (talk) 15:21, 20 August 2011 (UTC)