--- Jens Ropers ropers@ropersonline.com wrote:
We form a "review club" with the following membership criteria:
- A non-trivial edit history that
- demonstrates constructiveness and
- an ''ambition'' to work towards the NPOV.
A person's supposed "knowledge level" should NOT be a criterion (see below).
But this does nothing to address the criticism that our content is not vetted by experts. I agree that appeal to authority is largely a logical fallacy, but it nonetheless is followed like a religion by a great many people (who then blindly trust what the experts say). If we want to have them read our content, then we will have to give them that bit of comfort.
That said, I think that a hybrid system (trusted users with some experts mixed in *where* appropriate) would be best along with splitting this by subject area; each subject review board will have its own set of criteria on how they select articles for the stable branch. As noted, some areas of knowledge require more input by so-called experts than others.
And again, this would be *in addition to* our current best practices.
-- mav
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