This is not surprising in the least, and I don't think anyone really contests the cliquish-cultish nature of Wikipedia except those in the midst of it.

The problems I encountered by simply adding a standard spoiler tag in a film entry were epic. A couple of editors didn't like spoiler tags so removed them all, harassed and threatened and even banned people who disagreed with them. Someone I used to know via Usenet is now an administrator (or whatever it's called) and his own pet pages are filled with manipulated facts to serve his own purposes. And the less said about what happened when I caught a barnstar-winning editor in blatant plagiarism, the better.

In all these examples, there was only one underlying problem -- a small group of people using Wikipedia for their own egotastic reasons. People are finally getting tired of it.

Even the largest clique would not be able to impact more than a small percent of wikipedia's articles. The problem is that they impact rather a lot of the articles people want to write an extension of the problem that most of the stuff people want to write has been written.

What's the alternative or alternatives to the wikipedia template?...