User talk:BenGrosser
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February 2022
Volume Users: Personal Bias & Controlling Valid Content?
In February, 2022, MrOllie (talk) and BenGrosser (talk) agreed on the need to cite sources on Wikipedia; however, they Disagreed regarding MrOllie's application of the citing sources requirement in order to justify his opinion based and subjective edits on the Cyber-Insurance page, some of which were objectively unrelated to any source(s) being cited, or otherwise.
- It is concerning that users with extreme volume trump specialized expertise content additions provided from their deep niche specialized expertise and valid source citations; the very people who all Wikipedians would benefit from valid fact based content provided from. Instead, such volume users (sometimes) use their power for a worse public outcome via restricting valid, expertise, factual statements cited accurately. Multiple examples are abound, such as these examples where a high volume user plays judge on jury over who is and isn't an Eyelash Extension Expert and a Zero Trust Security Model Expert. Quite frankly, such high volume users have no credible way of determining expertise in niche fields; therefore, they use bias to determine what citations are reputable. But so is life. And the beauty of Wikipedia to allow consensus, over time...
- - - - BenGrosser (talk) 23:21, 10 February 2022 (UTC)