After nothing was done about the vandals, I would have filed a request for page protection.
I don’t know of anyone for whom that is the immediate assumption.
This is an appeal to authority.
Both of you are seem to be living in a perfect world. The truth is that 99% of the rest of the world don’t have time for this BS.
Bolding mine.
And people wonder why Wikipedia has such a bad rep.
No, we *know *why it has such a bad rep. We’ve outlined those reasons in some detail.
Pardon me, but your sarcasmeter needs to be recalibrated. 
What was that whooshing sound?
And, honestly, that’s the entire problem. I’ve noticed it, too. They’ve taken their “assume good faith” to absurd levels. The same person has to make tons of mistakes before they get in any real trouble.
Part of it is that there are way too many admins, and they don’t want to give them that much power. But they need it, badly.
It is true that you probably could have gotten resolution, but it would have involved finding an admin, and then proving to him that you were who you said you were. Otherwise, despite the flagrant rules violations that they announced ahead of time, they would have given them the assumption of good faith.
It sucks, because I so wanted to like the place. Now I only fix their files, because the changes I make are pretty uncontroversial.
BTW, I know from comments I’ve read that a lot of Wikipedians just don’t like experts. They think everyone should be equal, and that the only thing that counts is sources. There was a push a little while back to get experts to verify things, but the core of Wikipedia seemed to hate it.
On the other hand, I say that, if you don’t have time to even bother to try to follow the basic rules, then you have no right to complain. Now, if you tried to figure it out, but didn’t, that’s fine. But to just not do it because you don’t have time? That’s just your own fault.
Because that means that, even if they did make it easy to figure out what you’re supposed to do, you still wouldn’t do it. And if you care so little, why contribute at all?
Hey, some of us have a life away from the computer too, you know.