User:Michig/Wikipedia's biggest problems

Awful people

Wikipedia as a project is great, but has some serious problems. One of the biggest of these is that, while being the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, this also means it is the encyclopedia that anyone can spoil. As a community we are far too tolerant of incompetent, obnoxious, self-important, antagonistic, and lazy editors. This in turn means that we lose too many good editors who get frustrated by the community's failure to deal with such people.