User:Kirjtc2

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[edit] Goodbye...

After some thought, I have decided that being a Wikipedia editor is no longer for me. I first joined in 2002, and since then it's just gotten too big for my tastes. It's no longer about building a knowledge base as much as it's about determining policy. Newbies get bitten while perfectly legitimate articles and pictures, representing doubtless thousands of person-hours of work, get deleted because "policy wonks" think it doesn't meet the right guidelines - be them "notability" (an open-ended sham), the horrifically exclusive new fair use policy on pictures, or whatever else. Meanwhile, editors who continually add nonsense and cruft get a blind eye turned to, while legitimate editors are scorned. This is no longer a project I want to be associated with.

I'm sure quitting Wikipedia cold turkey, after it being the first website I check every morning, is going to be a challenge for me - but I'm certain that in the long run, my sanity and my blood pressure will be better for it. Maybe it's just because I want to work on my own projects without others interfering, but I can no longer write articles without fear of being reverted or having an AFD tag slapped on it. I am in the early stages of starting my own website, [1], which will become my new pet project, so to speak. I hope to see some of you there when it launches, I hope sometime early in 2007. But for now, so long.