PROBLEMS WITHOUT ADMINSHIP TERM LIMITS

Now that you know a bit about the cast of characters involved in this dubious encyclopedic story, you'll have a better understanding of the dark human dynamics that were involved. Wikipedia is a place of corrupt internal politics. For the past 20+ years, rules for yet more rules have been written exhaustively in what's known as the Wikipedia guidelines. Those rules usually sound good on the surface, but are typically interpreted arbitrarily and applied unevenly, mostly to non-admins and generally speaking people who have not been accepted as okay to make edits.

If you aren't a well-known and accepted quantity and you try to make an edit, statistically it will almost certainly be undone. On Wikipedia, it's called edit reverting. Every single word on Wikipedia and even every single punctuation on any page of slight popularity is tightly controlled. If you were to make a contribution as an editor, it would be immediately scrutinized by many stalking admins monitoring for recent changes site-wide and additionally everyone "supervising" the page you just edited. What do you think the chances are that atleast one of them pounces on you and your new edit?

If even one of them decides they don't approve of it or they just don't like that you're someone editing there, they'll revert your edit. Assuming you made a good edit, if there's nothing obvious they can think to say in their one-line summary of the revert, they may just say something rather ambiguous like it was an unnecessary contribution or a non-improvement. Even on a minor edit, they might weasel you about stylistic choices claiming that yours are inferior. Anyone can say any of that about practically any edit, and then it's simply an opinion based argument. You'll lose that argument everytime, because you lack admin power and social acceptance. When an admin argues with you, they will rarely back down no matter how wrong they are, especially if even one other admin shows up in a display of solidarity with them. If you put up much of a protest, expect that to happen.

Every user has their own talk page for behind the encyclopedia scenes discussion. After the almost immediate revert of your exciting new edit, the admin who reverted it may immediately follow up with a public message on your talk page. The post on your talk page is typically where the admin will school you on their reason for undoing your recent contribution. At this point, many admins like to throw an extra directive or two at you for good measure. It might sound something like, in the future read this and that first so you don't mess up again. Right then, it may suddenly occur to you that editing on this encyclopedia is not something you're going to really be welcomed at doing.

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