Wikipedia is trash anyway. It's influence saddens me, as for many people it is the only reference they will ever use in their lives. The articles are often written poorly, omit important details and obsessively focus on worthless ones instead, use questionable terms, show traces of bias and some are more a monument to the power of the author or a specific editor.
Much of the community is immature and completely unfit to write anything, especially scientific articles. They have these already subjective and retarded guidelines regarding "notability", sources and eventually abuse it anyway, resorting to either their position or connections.
Don't forget articles about fictional characters, whole fictional universes, etc. Most of articles already have a "In popular culture" section, as if it was something an encyclopedia really needs. Finally articles on websites, YouTube clowns, (subjectively chosen) maymays and other bullshit.
Finally there's the (hardly hidden anymore, although they still officially deny it) political involvement. On one hand, one shouldn't wonder that sponsors make demands, however this process may have had as well began "voluntarily", starting (as always) from the top. And this context makes the news especially hilarious, as Wales allowed and supervised all this and finally is getting "rewarded".
>>1>>2Honestly it always baffles me why so many founders of various projects have made it possible to get removed from them by others in the first place. Did they really overlook an obvious design flaw or were they just delusional?
>>3That they steal things is news to me. Unless you mean their desire to collect misunderstanding, propaganda, pseudo-science, pop-cultural waste and petty drama.