Like you Im surprised they have tolerated this articles existence. They could have quite easily waived the not normally flag and deleted it regardless of the merits and then just blocked anyone who contested as they normally do.

Yeah WPO has been pretty dead for a while. Part of the blame falls on zoloft for driving out all the critics and making it into another forum for wikipedia admins to justify the toxic and abusive conduct on wikipedia. Characters like Beeblebrox, serial shit heads like vagilint, etc. Its really gone ...

I still remember when she worked at the WMF and got fired for writing articles for profit. She should have been desysopped, but because she was an admin, the rules didn't apply to her.

this is pretty much the standard dumb stuff the WMF does. The community asks for an improvement, the WMF drags their feet and eventually releases garbage. The community complains, the WMF tells them to shut up and they all go on.

I never really had to much trouble with FPAS myself but there was an arrogance about him I found annoying.

I just read that Cassianto and schrocat are claiming retirement. Good, Wikipedia is better off without them. Tqo more gone that voted for my ban.

Well I didn't start editing until 2007 so I don't know what it was like before that.

To me it was mostly ok up until about 2014. That's when it really started to shift.

oh I'm sure. In the case of Rlevse we were working closely on some projects on commons and when Michael Maggs decided to indef me without discussion, Rlevse never came back. In the case of tiptoey, they asked Beeblebrox or Floquenbeam, I forget which, about my ban. They told them to F off, a couple ...

I could list a lot that have retired, not all good ones either.

Two I like that left due to bullying directly related to my case:
- Rlevse
- tiptoey

1 that should have been banned.
- bbb23 (only useful thing he's done in a decade).