User:George Swan

I have been a contributor to the wikipedia, with over 22,000 edits under my belt there. During my first year there I contributed mainly to non-controversial areas, like nautical history. About two years ago I started spending more energy working on articles related to the war on terror. I have been ploughing my way through the documents the Department of Defense has released about the captives held in Guantanamo.

One of my biggest frustrations with the wikipedia is the routine lack of compliance to its policies on civility, and related policies in its deletion fora. A related frustration I have is the lack of a fora to discuss the project's future growth. There are subgroups on the wikipedia who self-identify themselves as "mergists", "deletionists", "inclusionist", and rather than discussing the pros and cons of those alternate visions of the project, they hand out in the deletion fora and vote on the future of articles not based on the article's merit, but on how it fits in their vision of the project's future.

In my real life I am a computer programmer