Wow. I guess that when you're an "artist", like Dronebogus, you get a long leash.

Maybe if I draw some pictures of naked kids and upload them to the Wikimedia Commons, I'll be treated with more respect on en.wiki?

Wikipedia has a structure that is similar to the structure of a government in many ways. It has "functionaries", like administrators, bureaucrats, stewards, and WMF employees. It has an Arbitration Committee, which is roughly analogous to a Supreme Court. It has elements of democracy (RfAs, WMF Boar...

Does this count? December 2016: the WMF Trustees decide, unanimously, to explicitly give absolute control over some Wikipedia policies to the Executive Director, Katherine Maher. It was done very quietly and without seeking the input of the Wikipedia editing community. [47][48][49][50] "1. The reso...

Interesting stuff Eric. Thanks.

Are you aware of other instances, besides BLP, where the WMF acted as the "adults in the room" and forced a change of content or a change of PAG, against the wishes of editors?

I know they imposed BLP on all projects ( https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Biographies_of_living_people ) and the UCoC is meant (at least in theory) to create a standard of civility for smaller projects. However, I can't think of an example of them changing the PAGs of a project, me...

Are there any historical examples of the WMF, for one reason or another, interfering with en.wikipedia (or another language wikipedia) to force a change of policies or guidelines? Among the most obvious vectors of interference are the many Foundation employees and grant recipients who are also "fun...

Are there any historical examples of the WMF, for one reason or another, interfering with en.wikipedia (or another language wikipedia) to force a change of policies or guidelines?

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet-wikipedias-ayn-rand-loving-founder-and-wikimedia-foundations-regime-change-operative-ceo/ Scroll down on that thegrayzone.com page, past the two pics of Jimbo, and start reading about Katherine Maher. It gets really spooky. Yep, I say she's CIA all-the-way. W...

Oh wow. Politics is not a science. You're treating these books as if they are scientific research, which is indeed "vetted by the scholarly community" and must pass "peer-review". These books are nothing like that. They are not "vetted by the scholarly community" as they are political POV, not scie...

I guess it all depends on whether these are decent scholarly sources. In real life, yes, but Wikipedia makes it pretty clear: ""Reliable scholarship – Material such as an article, book, monograph, or research paper that has been vetted by the scholarly community is regarded as reliable, where the m...