Marc Riddell wrote:
Stan,
Every single thing you've said here is a reason not to act. Are you content with the way things are now as pertains to User Pages?
Well sure. You were the one that was complaining. :-) To be less flip and deftly tie back to original topic, our basic structure is built around the idea that the identity of editors doesn't matter, because all we're doing is copying facts and theories from authoritative sources. A team of high-schoolers working together should eventually produce the same featured article that a Nobelist could. We still like to have experts, because the expert could likely write the FA in one sitting before breakfast, where for the high-schoolers it would be months of hard work to get to the same place, but that's just a matter of efficiency.
I learn what I really need to know about an editor by reviewing contribution history and a sampling of diffs. A fertile field for psychologists in fact, I hypothesize that much about an editor's personality could be learned from analysis of the edit pattern.
Stan