User:Bovester

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To all Wikipedians stumbling across this page:

Ask yourself if you have ever made a contribution to Wikipedia. If you have, continue reading.

Ask yourself if any of your contributions have been refuted by self-appointed mavens who think they know everything about everything. If they have, continue reading.

Ask yourself if anyone who has deleted your contributions was an administrator. If they were, continue reading.

Ask yourself if these people actually earned their rights to be administrators, or simply were given administrator privileges because they go around deleting material that they can't verify themselves, even if the material was cited in the appropriate format. If they were, continue reading.

I believe in the Wikipedia project. I believe that it is the single greatest collaboration that has ever occurred on the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, there are certain kinds of people out there who do not see Wikipedia as it is meant. They see it as the only place where they hold the power to change things. They exercise this power EVERY DAY in the most INAPPROPRIATE fashion, whether it be through deleting content that they personally don't think is valid (without contacting the contributor of that content, when the contributor's username is clearly right next to their line in the edit history) or whether it be blocking users with whom they do not agree. If you are an administrator, chances are I am not talking about you.

But if you are the kind of administrator that goes through and arbitrarily deletes entries without even thinking to contact the contributor beforehand, I do not see you as someone who deserves the privileges they have been given.

If you are a user who has come in contact with abusive administrators who only use Wikipedia as a means to unfairly use power they did not deserve, make sure to let them know that you think so.