Bishonen is one of Wikipedia's many semi-talented writers, people who write for the ego thrill of having other people read what they've written, whether or not it's any good. She's a half-way decent writer, which means, by the standards of the Wikipedia cesspool, she's amazingly good.
Like many other ego-driven writers, she's also prone to trolling. It stands to reason that Wikipedia would draw ego-driven writers; such people crave having their writing read, or at least being on prominent public display, and Wikipedia is a great vehicle for that. She's not particularly remarkable; merely one of the more prominent of a rather numerous breed. The reason people like her don't leave Wikipedia outright is that they continue to get the ego boost from publication on Wikipedia, which is their primary motivation for writing there in the first place.
Bishonen has written some decent articles, but from the standpoint of effective governance of Wikipedia she has never had anything meaningful to add. Her motivations have always been toward getting her content published in the form she wants it, and very little else. When she involves herself in governance, it is almost always on behalf of one of the other ego-driven writers who has run into some problem (usually, by writing something on a topic that an ideological editor has decided to own).
All in all I'd say that the ego-driven writers are a minor concern in Wikipedia; the main problem they create is occasional abrasiveness and friction when someone steps on one of their private garden plots. The ideological editors are far more of a problem.
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