As of 2023, I remain concerned that WP has no handle on WP:POV editors and paid advocates on wikipedia, who undermine the neutrality of a page, who will manufacture controversy, who spread fear, uncertainty and doubt, who isolate critical content and critical editors by divide and rule tactics, and who don't shy away from incivility and social undermining.
The idea of self-policing, expecting editors to play nice and recuse themselves if they have a conflict of interest, remains neither realistic nor enforceable.
Thanks to investigative journalism, picked up in the WP: Signpost by HaeB and Andreas Kolbe, for example here WP:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-07-17/In_the_media, the community occasionally gets reminded, how WP is instrumentalized and how damaging the issue is.
Articles I have written
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- virtual currency, view stat
- IFD Kapital Group, view stat
- Physicians in US Congress view stat
- NBMI merged with BDTH2
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- Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality, view stat
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- Antimicrobial stewardship, view stat
- copsin, view stat
- Maria Radner, view stat
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- Assembly of the Friends of Azerbaijan, view stat
- cyproconazole, view stat
- Jerry Crawford (lawyer) view stat
- Jamestown Canyon virus view stat
- isolation (microbiology), view stat
- Ren Jianxin (businessman) view stat
- Río Gualcarque, view stat
- JungdemokratInnen/Junge Linke view stat
- Fernando Becerril view stat
- Adiós muchachos (tango), view stat
- Sistema Huautla, view stat
- Andrew Herxheimer, view stat
- Máxima Acuña, view stat
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- Nebraska Ordnance Plant, view stat
- Utako Okamoto, view stat
- Cavu, view stat
- , Klein's line
- Schistosoma bovism view stat
- Eric Gauthier (dancer)m view stat
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- Des Moines Water Works, view stat
- North America's Building Trades Unions, view stat
- Machine Identification Code, view stat
- Eberstadt Stalactite Cave, Eberstadt_Stalactite_Cave view stat
- Tessa Holyoake, view stat
- Total Diet Study, view stat
- London P&I Club, view stat
- Joan Bicknell, view stat
- George Nader (businessman),view stat
- Ian Freebairn-Smith, view stat
- Yves Lévy, view stat
- Davida Coady, view stat
- Austrian Speleological Association, view stat
- Patricia Schiller, view stat
- Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo, view stat
- Gwen Grant Mellon,view stat
- Spanish Society of Speleology and Karst Science,view stat
- Lewis E. Braverman,view stat
- Joseph H. Simons,view stat
- Élisabeth Revol, view stat
- Jim Siergey, view stat
- Rudi Domidian, view stat
- Nenad Vasilić, view stat
- Catherine Wilfert, view stat
- Terravision
- Gentianella praecox
- Georges Jeanclos
- Restoration Advisory Board
- Ann McGuiness
- Willow project
- Bercedo
- Meron Estefanos
- Federal Institute for Prevention and Education in Medicine
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As of 2021
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The Civility Barnstar
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even if we disagreed on particular edits, your attitude was always constuctive and to the point Ladislav Mecir (talk) 12:06, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
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The Current Events Barnstar
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For you excellent contributions to the 1033 program at a time when its content was of great importance to events and discussions in the United States. Darouet (talk) 18:41, 28 November 2014 (UTC)
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flow and resistence
Thank you, user who signed the Neurotypical / Autism spectrum interaction pact, for "added references, summary of facts", for quality articles based on professional expertise, such as Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and Physicians in the United States Congress, for welcoming new users with individual advice, and your plans for Antibiotic resistance which will need resistance, for "I think knowledge is like clean water and must flow" and Amen, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
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The Good Heart Barnstar
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You may be new, but at the root, you're trying to improve Wikiedia and educate other editors. Keep up the good work. 208.81.212.222 (talk) 19:51, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
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The Editor's Barnstar
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For generally being an excellent editor, systematically cleaning up articles here and there throughout the encyclopedia where the articles need help. Keep up the great and continuous work! May it continue to be joyous work! Sadads (talk) 04:51, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
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The Teamwork Barnstar
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I said it all above, but there is nothing wrong with saying it twice - plus you are pretty good at removing superfluous content so that there is room on the servers for this award. Bfpage let's talk... 11:41, 20 February 2017 (UTC)
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