On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bryan Derksen wrote:
Would this
explain why so many users are retiring?
I, for one, have found myself not editing
nearly as much as I used to in
recent months. I'm pretty sure that dropoff started for me with the
Characters and Episodes debacle. Even though I don't generally
contribute to such articles myself seeing so much work being
systematically thrown away was very disheartening and makes me wonder
whether my contributions in other areas will be kept.
Quantity is a quality of its own, IMO. Wikipedia's comprehensiveness of
coverage is one of its big strengths.
Spoiler warnings and episodes were what did it for me; I only edit occasionally
now. Webcomics didn't help either, though I pretty much learned of that one
after the fact.