QUOTE(Manning Bartlett @ Tue 12th July 2011, 7:46pm)
This corrupted the entire system as far as I was concerned, and I wanted no part of it.
I'd say that what happened was that you became aware of the corruption. It didn't arise at that late date.
Looking at the history of
Manning BartlettÂ
(T-C-L-K-R-D)
, I see that you go back to 2001. There are not many left! You asked for and received your admin rights back in February.
Once Upon A Time, another user and I worked a bit on a project to collect stories of former significant users who had retired. Of the two of us, he was first to be banned, I survived for a few more years.
DYK that the admin who started AN/I later considered it to have been a huge mistake? It's been proposed how to fix it, it would not be difficult, ... but you can't fix things on Wikipedia, once they are broken, because there are too many who like things the way they are, they have learned to manipulate the existing structure. Broken structure, practically by definition, creates inequity favoring some group. And that group, by definition, then has excess power and will resist change.
It's like clockwork, it happens routinely in organizations where the structure doesn't prevent it, and about the only way to fix it is from some outside force or major revolution. Major revolutions, unfortunately, often don't address the real problem, poor structure, and instead just change the faces, believing that the problem was Those Bad People.
So intense is this assumption that, I found, I was considered, again and again, to be attacking individuals as Bad, when I was pointing out structural defects.
The page on Wikiversity where I've documented self-reverted editing (two examples from Wikipedia, one from Wikiversity) has been called an "attack page," because some assume that someone like me would be "attacking the bad people, belaboring old grievances," perhaps because that's what they would do. If that page is attacking someone, I'd appreciate it if someone would point out how and where! Indeed, please fix it!