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===Hostility against newcomers===

According to a 2016 VICE News article, Wikipedia is reportedly being notorious for being an unwelcome place for newcomers while having a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site. Many individuals who edited Wikipedia shared the concern, including Kevin Forsyth who reportedly quitted the site due to "constant harassment from his fellow editors and lack of consequences for those who were openly combative on the site." Because of that, there was even a suicide attempt which was averted thanks to interventions by the authorities.<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide/</ref>

According to a 2016 VICE News article, Wikipedia is reportedly being notorious for being an unwelcome place for newcomers while having a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site. Many individuals who edited Wikipedia shared the concern, including Kevin Forsyth who reportedly quitted the site due to "constant harassment from his fellow editors and lack of consequences for those who were openly combative on the site." Because of that, there was even a suicide attempt which was averted thanks to interventions by the authorities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Koebler |first1=Jason |title=Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide/ |website=VICE |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=17 May 2016}}</ref>

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===Deletionism===

Wikipedia has been reported by some sources as being grappled by deletionism, causing the absence of coverage of many obscure and niche topics and a decline of participation activities among experts and high-value editors.<ref>https://gwern.net/inclusionism</ref><ref>https://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extincti.html</ref>

Wikipedia has been reported by some sources as being grappled by deletionism, causing the absence of coverage of many obscure and niche topics and a decline of participation activities among experts and high-value editors.<ref>{{cite web |title=In Defense of Inclusionism |url=https://gwern.net/inclusionism |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en-us |date=15 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Andrea |title=Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extincti.html |website=Boing Boing |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=14 February 2017}}</ref>

==="Name and shame" pages===

On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names. In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports?</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID</ref>

On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=7 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=20 October 2025}}</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names. In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Archive 6 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports? |website=Wikipedia |language=en |date=15 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ananny |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=3 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101 |website=Wikipedia |language=en |date=21 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Tirgil34 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34 |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=23 September 2024}}</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Europeanhematology |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/DEATH TO COVID |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=4 May 2024}}</ref>

===Orangemoody scandal===

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 ===Hostility against newcomers===
-According to a 2016 VICE News article, Wikipedia is reportedly being notorious for being an unwelcome place for newcomers while having a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site. Many individuals who edited Wikipedia shared the concern, including Kevin Forsyth who reportedly quitted the site due to "constant harassment from his fellow editors and lack of consequences for those who were openly combative on the site." Because of that, there was even a suicide attempt which was averted thanks to interventions by the authorities.<ref>https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide/</ref>
+According to a 2016 VICE News article, Wikipedia is reportedly being notorious for being an unwelcome place for newcomers while having a dizzying list of guidelines, principles, and rules that are disproportionately applied across the site. Many individuals who edited Wikipedia shared the concern, including Kevin Forsyth who reportedly quitted the site due to "constant harassment from his fellow editors and lack of consequences for those who were openly combative on the site." Because of that, there was even a suicide attempt which was averted thanks to interventions by the authorities.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Koebler |first1=Jason |title=Wikipedia Editor Says Site’s Toxic Community Has Him Contemplating Suicide |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/wikipedia-editor-says-sites-toxic-community-has-him-contemplating-suicide/ |website=VICE |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=17 May 2016}}</ref>
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 ===Deletionism===
-Wikipedia has been reported by some sources as being grappled by deletionism, causing the absence of coverage of many obscure and niche topics and a decline of participation activities among experts and high-value editors.<ref>https://gwern.net/inclusionism</ref><ref>https://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extincti.html</ref>
+Wikipedia has been reported by some sources as being grappled by deletionism, causing the absence of coverage of many obscure and niche topics and a decline of participation activities among experts and high-value editors.<ref>{{cite web |title=In Defense of Inclusionism |url=https://gwern.net/inclusionism |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en-us |date=15 January 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=James |first1=Andrea |title=Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance |url=https://boingboing.net/2017/02/14/watching-wikipedias-extincti.html |website=Boing Boing |access-date=21 November 2025 |date=14 February 2017}}</ref>
 ==="Name and shame" pages===
-On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names. In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports?</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID</ref>
+On Wikipedia, there are publicly-visible "name and shame" pages such as "Sockpuppet investigation" casepages (SPI) and Long-term abuse pages (LTA) whose ostensible aims are for assisting anti-vandalism purposes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=7 November 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=20 October 2025}}</ref> Pages in the latter category often contain personally-identifiable attributes of users who're branded as "long term abusers" (LTA) for supposedly engaging in disruptions against the Wikipedia over a long period, including IP addresses, full legal names. In at least one case where a user accused of being an LTA is an apparent juvenile, no special measures to consider their privacy rights (i.e. hiding LTA pages to only audiences with Wikipedia accounts) are apparently observed. <ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia talk:Long-term abuse/Archive 6 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Long-term_abuse/Archive_6#Should_we_really_be_including_personal_information_in_LTA_reports? |website=Wikipedia |language=en |date=15 September 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Ananny |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Ananny |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=3 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Bambifan101 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Bambifan101 |website=Wikipedia |language=en |date=21 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Tirgil34 |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Tirgil34 |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=23 September 2024}}</ref> Such practices may risk violating GDPR as there's also a case where scientific researchers based in Czech Republic and Slovakia were doxxed that way due to accusations that they had engaged in self-promoting edits on Wikipedia. At a glance, little to no fact-checking and quality checking processes were observed in the LTA page creation process, which may mean that some or all accusations in some if not all of LTA pages may be inaccurate and could therefore constitute defamation/libel.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Europeanhematology |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/Europeanhematology |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=24 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/DEATH TO COVID |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Long-term_abuse/DEATH_TO_COVID |website=Wikipedia |access-date=21 November 2025 |language=en |date=4 May 2024}}</ref>
 ===Orangemoody scandal===