G'day David, [AfD]
So. Is Wikipedia's provable anti-expert bias here a good or bad thing? If bad, what to do about it? Please discuss.
It depends on the expert. On the one hand, an unbiased view on AfD is a very welcome thing. Imagine if SPUI were the sole authority on what roadcruft we should keep, and what we should delete! And yet, he's undeniably an amateur expert on transportation in the USA --- should his opinion count for more than the metric truckload of people who don't think an unnoteworthy back street encyclopaedic?
On the other hand, anti-expert bias is inherently a Bad Thing. Wikipedia is too populist. We take experts and say to them "well, I'm an ignorant moron from Power Cable, Nebraska, and my views count just as much as yours do. So tell me, if you can, why Lyndon LaRouche isn't our Lord and Saviour?"
The question is not whether we should be blanket pro- or anti-expert. It's how far to either extreme we should lean.
Cheers,