/lit/ - Literature

I write about niche topics on English Wikipedia. There is a group of people called "deletionists" that stalk new page creations and argue they should be deleted. Once you beat them, they develop a grudge against you and look for ways to cut down your other pages. They gang up with other deletionists by voting to delete articles flagged by each other. So you have to form cliques with "inclusionists" in order to keep your articles alive. The smarter deletionists will wait until you stop using the website for a few weeks before tehy nominate your stuff for deletion, since they don't want you to make a case for your own stuff, which will make normal editors sympathetic. Especially dastardly ones will use the speedy deletion feature to try and kill a page anyone you can respond. Sometimes, deletionists will accuse you of "activist editing" in order to discredit the pages you made - in their ideal world, people only write about topics they don't care about, because by caring about something, you have a conflict of interest. I don't even like making articles anymore, but I do it because I have learned to hate.