Please take a look at an example about "collaborative"

If I follow your logic Kaicarver WP is *NOT* "The encyclopedia that everyone can edit", at all, but one where the "everyone" has try to understand myriads of tribal rules before the unseen Masters let "everyone" pick even the smallest bread crumb off the table.

That everyone can edit it doesn't mean that everyone can do anything they want. This is true for any publicly shared resource.

A library is open to all, but if you decide to reorganize a bookshelf in a manner that seems more sensible to you, you will face resistance.

Your witticism has no relation to what really happened in my case. But it perfectly illustrates the attitude of growing blindness of self-recognized "know-it-alls", as I described in my second long rant below.