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The awful truth about Wikipedia

This page is rather a good example of how a good page can be turned into a bad one by a series of foolish edits. There never was a justification for merging Japanese and Chinese together on one page, and I should have realised from the beginning that this piggybacking of the Chinese contents onto the Japanese language page was a stupid mistake. Successive edits have rendered the page less and less readable, and the recent idiotic decision to merge the information on Chinese and Japanese punctuation, as well as the rewriting of a section which was originally entirely about Japanese into something which seems to be entirely about Chinese yet again indicates the carelessness and foolishness of very many so-called Wikipedians. I recently looked at the page about ""only write about what you know"" to find that it has been removed - Wikipedia, it seems, must be saddled with the efforts of illiterates and people who do not know what they are talking about. If I was actively involved in editing this encyclopedia, on the strength of the recent idiotic series of edits, I would revert out the Chinese language information and rename the page back to ""yokogaki and tategaki"". It used to be a good, well written, informative page. Now it is a mish-mash of badly written, confusing crud. Unfortunately what happened to this article is not an isolated example but an all-too-typical example of what ""Wikipedians"" seem to achieve - degeneration of article quality. Since I've abandoned this project (sorry my user page does not contain details, I had to have it deleted after repeated vandalism from  "