On 6/3/06, Sam Spade samspade.thomasjefferson@googlemail.com wrote:
People could fax their diploma or some such. It doesn't seem like a huge deal to me. Personally I'd just like to see some '''informed''' party with the final say (i.e. not a random, non-expert admin or arbiter).
And if there's a technical area where the experts have a disagreement, and the one who shows up first happens to be strongly biased in one direction or the other?
What about fields where the number of experts are either tiny, or they are for various reasons grossly unlikely to ever contribute to Wikipedia?
What does it say to people who are jacks-of-many-trades if you institute a policy which says that only a degree is valid qualification, and that it doesn't matter how many fields you may publish in, work professionally in, have patents in, only the ones on your degree matter for WP?
This suggestion seems likely to seriously curb a lot of otherwise qualified involvement.