Wikipedia’s next leader on preventing misinformation

I hope things improve with this change of personnel. Recently, after years of not editing or trying to correct anything on Wikipedia, I saw a glaring error in one the chemistry entries—a common enough chemical—and attempted to correct it (it was just too gross an error for me to let it pass).

Anyway, I gave up after it accused me or the domain I originated from of spam, abusive practices or whatever. I then sent a message to Wiki 'Help' to the effect that I'd been chucked off without having attempted to edit anything for about a decade and said that I wasn't interested in being 'de-blackballed' but if they wanted to correct the error themselves then here were the details. Within a few hours the error had been corrected.

It seems to me the simple way around these problems is to stop people editing pages directly and to just submit them to be curated. Edits are checked anyway so I can't see why there would be a problem doing this way.

One way or other, it's got to change (I've often seen errors and from my past bad experiences years ago long before this incident, I've learned just to ignore them—trying to correct them is just too much trouble).