Wikipedia - a neglected opportunity

[Dan Howard]

MIke Bishop submitted an article on lorica segmentata, and was dismayed to find that it had been edited within an hour, and within two days was unrecognizable.

I had a similar experience when I attempted to fix the problems with the article on ring armour. After weeks of hassles I managed to get the rubbish removed and leaving it as a "stub" entry but any attempt at elaboration still gets vandalised even today. The only thing I really managed to accomplish was to include a link to the Arador article on the subject.