Systemic abuse

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Wikipedia has a myriad of policies and guidelines, many of which directly conflict with each other, and many others which are so widely open to interpretation that they are virtually meaningless and abused on a regular basis. In fact, one of the biggest policy abusers is the self-proclaimed sole founder of Wikipedia, that's right, Jimbo Wales himself.

What's this? That doesn't sound very NPOV. How do the powers that be abuse such powers? We're so glad you asked...

[edit] Prime example: take it from the top

On August 4, 2003, Jimbo Wales said that "it is a social faux pas to write about yourself" on Wikipedia. [1]

That's funny, because later he did this.

And then this.

And then this, this, this, annnnnnnnnnnnd this.

While Jimbo Wales contends that Bomis and the services and photographs they provide, photos such as this, are merely "glamor photography", the furthest thing possible from porn, he might dream that he could wiki-edit his way into the The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language which defines pornography as "sexually explicit pictures, writing, or other material whose primary purpose is to cause sexual arousal". After the media exposed Wales for breaking one of the cardinal rules regarding autobiographies on Wikipedia, he stammered that the dictionary definition of pornography is wrong, and that he was merely correcting "simple factual error[s]". [2]

“Adult content” or “glamour photography” are the terms that he prefers, though, as one user pointed out on the site, they are perhaps not the most precise way to describe lesbian strip-poker threesomes. (In January, Wales agreed to a compromise: “erotic photography.”) He is repentant about his meddling.
—Stacy Schiff. July 24, 2006. [3]

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