Wikipedia Sucks!

This whole RefDesk debate is bringing out the gold.

Shut down per above. Wikipedia is not a Q&A site. -FASTILY 07:29, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

1. Wikipedia is not a photography website, but it has a Graphics Lab. You could write a hundred sentences of that form, and the reason is always the same - these things that are not Wikipedia, the encyclopedia, but part of Wikipedia, were created because they benefit Wikipedia, the encyclopedia.

2. Wikipedia is a Q&A site in the sense that theoretically, people with questions are meant to go there looking for answers. The RefDesks exist in part because it so frequently sucks balls at this task, either because the information it has is missing, or shit, or it is there but in the wrong place, or otherwise not easily located.

Fastily is a moron. A classic example of the sort of person who keeps his comments brief, because to expand upon them, merely confirms the suspicion prompted by the short comment, that he is a moron. He is also personally approved of by NewYorkBrad as a fine Administrator.

When you understand things like this, when you understand how and why freaks like Fastily are given power and influence on Wikipedia, you start to understand just why Wikipedia is so shit, and always will be shit.

The aptly named Fastily is admired for only one reason. He is capable of deleting images at a startling rate, far quicker than any other Administrator, indeed all others combined, and he has never been troubled by issues of conscience at the realisation that with his speed, comes an unacceptably high rate of errors, and a general air of assholery that is totally incompatible with the intended ethos of Wikipedia.

Seriously. Who in their right mind thinks this is a good sign......

8 January - 112 deletions
7 January - 93 deletions
6 January - 78 deletions
5 January - 241 deletions
4 January - 68 deletions
3 January - 89 deletions
2 January - 116 deletions
1 January - 73 deletions

Average: 108

(112+93+78+242+68+89+116+73)/8

Those are crazy stats, and this is him after he had previously promised to slow down and take more care. Even more troubling, he seems to achieve this rate of work with a time card that looks positively normal compared to the average Wikipedia addict. That is perhaps explained by the fact he edits sparsely, and the card presumably tracks edit times, not logged in time. In his entire Wikipedia career, he has made 72.539 edits (includes deleted edits), but a whopping 278,250 deletions. His last 100 edits covers an entire month, so casual observers might be forgiven for thinking he is not very active. If only.

Always characterised by his brevity, bizarrely, early on Monday mornings seems to be his favourite time for actually putting words into the encyclopedia. And that example above, seems to be typical of it (7.29am, last Monday). Other examples of his stellar contributions to the text based form of contributing to Wikipedia include "No. Still a tabloid", in the debate to overturn the Daily Mail ban. Ridiculous. Pointless even, if still pretending these things are not votes (they clearly are) and Administrators are selected for their effective communication (they clearly are not).

No surprise then, that he was ecstatic when a fellow traveller, someone similarly incapable or unwilling to communicate effectively, if at all, seeing the Admin role as that of a mechanical button masher for whom speed is a measure of performance, not outcomes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =875353298

Just to spot check this maniac's work, is a daunting task. Certainly if you are doing it in a way that covers all possible areas of failure (he doesn't simply delete one type of thing for one specific reason, he covers the whole range of types of page and deletion criteria, so checking 1 in a 100 doesn't remotely cut it). And this rather fancifully imagines Wikipedia as a place where spot checking people's work is done at all, much less in an organised and effective manner.

Even though I only just said it, it bears repeating.....

When you understand things like this, when you understand how and why freaks like Fastily are given power and influence on Wikipedia, you start to understand just why Wikipedia is so shit, and always will be shit.

11:32, 10 January 2019 Fastily (talk | contribs) deleted page Medieval Japanese literature (G7: One author who has requested deletion or blanked the page – If you wish to retrieve it, please see WP:REFUND)

12:01, 10 January 2019 Cryptic (talk | contribs) restored page Medieval Japanese literature (203 revisions) (not a valid reason for G7)

Just another day in Fastily World.

Fastily is a deletionist prick. I wouldn't be surprised if he is a sock of the banned editor Delta.

I'd like him better if his name was "Carefully."

RfB

Massive parallels with Fram here. NewYorkBrad insisted he be given his tools back, no questions asked, despite there being persistent and obvious problems with the way he operates. But with Wikipedia facing a massive recruitment/retention crisis, Brad just wants every last asshole manning the shop floor. Deal with the crisis you have, not the one you're going to have down the line. Even if one leads to the other like night follows day. Or rather how a nuclear winter follows a nuclear holocaust.

Anyway, it looks like Fastily is gonna benefit from the absolutely exhausting experience it has proven to be to just get it in record that Fram is actually an asshole.......

Meanwhile, I would re-iterate that I am not happy with Fastily's "shoot first and ask questions later" attitude here, and I believe Iridescent has had cause to complain about them as well. I'm not going to run off to Arbcom to request a desysop, because life's too short and frankly they all need a break before the whole lot of them retire from exhaustion. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:11, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

Carrite wrote:Fastily is a deletionist prick. I wouldn't be surprised if he is a sock of the banned editor Delta.

I'd like him better if his name was "Carefully."

RfB

Yeah I agree. Him, Jcb on commons and Bbb23 the sock fisherman are all cut from the same cloth.