They do have a special role. Provided they edit responsibly and are respectful to other users. Your experience is only applicable in support of the proposition that a user who edits aggressively in a point of view way and is disrespectful to other editors will gradually build strong opposition against them despite professional credentials.
Fred
From: "Abe Sokolov" abesokolov@hotmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 02:42:57 +0000 To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Rules, expertise, and encyclopedic standards
a special role for **non-anonymous** professionals, academics, graduate students, etc.