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> Cool thing about wiki is that you can edit it! That way the next person to read it gets the benefit of your knowledge.

Only if they're lucky to arrive in the narrow window between you making your edit and it getting reverted by the power user squatting the page. In practice you can't really edit wikipedia unless you put a lot of time and effort into getting good at wikipedia politics.

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This is not true in my experience; you can make a wide range of possible edits without being reverted. Knowing which ones those are requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policy, not its politics. (There is politics, but it's not like every edit is a battle of minds.)

You'd need to read up on the notability guidelines and find a secondary source to figure whether you can make this edit stick. Though then again, there's often no "power user squatting the page" of any kind, so it might not be reverted even if you fail to adhere to this.

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