[But almost any time I contributed something, some pretentious little snoot would get on there and reverse it, and use excuses like “no evidence” or “cite sources”. ]
That’s how encyclopedias work. Sources are cited.
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Yet, the people who were doing the reversing had absolutely no basis for their action. It was something I had first hand knowledge of and they did not. Things I knew to be a fact. To cite a source, I would have been forced to cite myself, and prove my identity. Again, not worth it, when I just wanted to contribute to the public body of knowledge on a topic to which I was position to have first hand exclusive or limited access to. The people who were doing other edits and contributions often did not have their challenged, and the people who reversed mine had no authority on the subject.