Ed Poor wrote
We are not
storming the citadel of Academia by the gates, but we are (like bloggers rebutting TV networks and Matt Drudge scooping news magazines) LEVELING OUT the playing field. This is democracy in action.
Well, it is actually populism. The populist streak in Wikipedianism is important. I'd like to think we do buttals, not rebuttals. I'd like to think we are co-opting academia rather than treating it like the Bastiille.
Charles