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Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by xor25519 on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:51PM (#38538062)
You can be pseudonomous on Wikipedia. Also, some experts are so deep in their field of expertise that they assume others to be knowing something they take for granted. (I am not a Wikipedia editor.)
Re:Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer edit... by tptacek on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @06:47PM (#38538571)
It doesn't have much to do with your public identity, but rather with how experts in a field tend to write about that field; they make assumptions that are universally accepted among practitioners, but aren't obvious to lay readers, and Wikipedia tends to challenge those assumptions.

I guess hiding your identity is a way to cite your own stuff there.