Dow, you are certainly free to criticize this page or any other, I just don't like the scattershot nature of the things you say. I'll argue with you on the point of this Südpfalz page because you have a specific point and maybe we can talk without throwing in too many side issues. (I'm going to ignore all the "you people"/"you folks" talk).
This particular area page is not pretending to know anything about the climbing routes in the area. It shows maps, talks about the country side, and lists summits and their elevations. It's actually talking about the area from the point of view of a hiker, and in reading it I don't see any attempts to usurp the role of a knowledgeable rock climber in that context.
Now, as a climber myself, would I like to see an area page that focuses on the climbing routes? Sure! For example I'd like to know the "5 star" climbs in a given subarea. Gangolf isn't going to be able to provide that, and he doesn't even try. He did NOT create "climbing based content/beta for the areas I climb" nor did he contaminate "first person/first hand climbing contributions" with "observations from folks who have not climbed the objective."
It's an area page, not a summit or a route page. It's written by someone who hiked around the area a lot. Aside from mentioning that it's popular with climbers, nothing this hiker did is so risible as you intimate.
Finally, did he obscure content from real climbers, by virtue of his enlightened position on the elf staff? No, he didn't commit that crime either.
I can attest from personal experience, that when Gangolf made an Area page for the Wilder Kaiser mountains, known for the technical climbing (
as well as their hiking), he asked some climbers, me included to share ownership of the page in the hope we would contribute some good technical stuff. I imagine this Südpfalz page will go the same way. Somebody knowledgeable about the technical routes will eventually come along and you'll eventually see more of the kind of information you want to see about rope lengths, protection, raptor restrictions, whatever.
You are a highly productive individual on the site. Your contributions serve the technical climber, and very well at that. The hiker? Not so much. And that's fine.
I'll shut up now, the last word is yours
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