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 | This page in a nutshell: An editor can feign to be a productive editor and can maintain that guise and mirage for months and years but in actuality are only editing here to achieve a bad faith goal. |
Certain editors can feign or maintain a facade of productivity and indeed can actually be productive but are only editing productively in order to achieve a long term bad faith goal that was hatched from their very first edit. The predominant text book cause of this, is usually assumed to be undisclosed paid editing whilst more often than not this is actually correct, Another factor often overlooked and responsible for this, is an editor (who was then still new) oblivious of our general notability criteria and working with a false premise or a wrong preconceived notion of what Wikipedia is, trying to write articles on people they have a clear conflict of interest with and when the article is deleted accordingly, rather than quit, they take it upon themselves to study policy, essays and guidelines, They invariably become knowledgeable and contribute productively but with the supreme goal of re-creating the article or articles they have a conflict of interest in when they have gained the trust of the community.