Like arguing with cranks at a town hall meeting, ignorant high school group project classmates, and bureaucracy-obsessed nonprofit initiative zealots all wrapped into one.

in the area I was trying to contribute (a math subdomain) to there is sooooo much technical misinformation. but if you don't have an intimate knowledge of all the details of the editing bylaws, and seemingly infinite time to be able to litigate your case, it's almost impossible to get any of these edits through when the original page author is sufficiently motivated to prevent them.

He talks of "undoing the lefts march through the institutions", as if he was fighting some sort of Maoist movement.

The guy has lost the plot and has become a troll trying to use the encyclopedia as ideological battleground.

Good riddance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noti...

Can someone here please help me understand what the issue is?

(I keep seeing stuff in that linked article about canvassing and "the left marching through institutions" but again I'm not following the overall argument / issue. Please forgive my ignorance if I'm missing something obvious.)

At worst it can be a hive mind echo chamber where certain views are banished to the Abyss.

Certain topics attract the latter rather than the former…

Ironically they might have amplified the reach of their articles to laymen and editors and made him a martyr in the process.