[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia's provable anti-expertise bias (was How did this happen (comixpedia??))

[David Gerard]

Darin Brown wrote:

>It is
>clear by looking at the histories of several AfD's for just a few hours that
>many people who were not experts on the topic, and hardly cared or were even
>interested in the topic, expended so much time and energy in telling people
>who *were* experts and interested people how they should police themselves.


Yep. AFD is one place where Larry Sanger's claim of blatant
anti-expert bias is provably correct.

So. Is Wikipedia's provable anti-expert bias here a good or bad thing?
If bad, what to do about it? Please discuss.


- d.