Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

So, there appear to be some people who call themselves "Wikipedia freedom fighters." I got email today, from them, starting with some general nice-sounding stuff they want in Wikipedia (they claim to be opposed to "bureaucracy and corruption," and I'm sure they are in favor of motherhood and apple pie). Then it says they'd asked for my help a year ago and I hadn't responded (which is entirely plausible), and reiterates what they want: they are "expanding their portfolio of administrator accounts," and want me to "donate" mine to them.

Right. I should give a complete stranger control over something that has a moderately long history online, and is associated with my real name.

That's even aside from ethical questions about trying to grab admin privileges sub rosa because they can't earn them (questionable even if the reasons they can't earn those privs are about someone else defending their turf).

One of the odd things about dropping in on Wikipedia briefly on a regular basis (I try to look at my watchlist a couple of times a week) is that I get periodic messages on my user page, about articles I have no recollection of, because I worked on them five years ago. On at least one occasion, someone thought I had created such an article, because I was either the last editor before, or the first after, the migration to the current software, so a complete article history goes back to me. So I'm asked to defend against deletion a page that I made an attempt to turn into something sane, on a topic that probably doesn't need an article.

The latest I've been asked to attend to is "Early Infanticidal Childrearing." The note says, under the title,

Remember that?

A new editor, Cesar Tort, has done a major edit of the article and changed the title to [[Psychohistorical views on infanticide]], but I still think it is highly problematic. I had a detailed exchange with him in which I set out my problems with the revised article and he responded [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Early_infanticidal_childrearing#My_own_objections_to_the_article] here - it would take some time to read through, but several years ago you had many valuable comments, and I would be grateful if you could look at the revised article and my comments, and those of others in sections below mine, and add your voice.

While I may have had valuable comments then, right now I am shorter on valuable time, so I'm not planning to pursue this.

Today's game is hitting the "random article" button on Wikipedia and doing light copyedits on some of the articles. Light meaning that I'm looking at spelling and grammar, not fact checking here.

I have touched up the mortar on the structure of knowledge, in a small but useful way.

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