2009/4/16 WJhonson@aol.com:
The role of experts is to help find the sources, not to include their own original theories about those sources. That's been the essential problem with experts in the project. They want to write up their own unpublished, or unvetted information into the pages.
*Some* experts. You can hardly move on WIkipedia without bumping into a Ph.D.
Our problem comes from people who can't work well with *lots* of others - but that's hardly restricted to experts.
Some parts of Wikipedia are expert-hostile. But there's plenty of others to tell those people they're doing it wrong. I think our claimed "expert problem" is way overstated.
- d.