[WikiEN-l] "Exclusion" essay

[Sean Barrett]

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Elisabeth Bauer stated for the record:

> Allowing too much "fancruft" in Wikipedia creates an imbalance in the community
> structure. There is a really large pool of 15 year old, computer savy kids (some
> may be older) who get easily attracted to writing wikipedia articles about f.e.
> star trek compared to a very small pool of for example experts on let's say
> homer. The latter group won't be as easily drawn into writing for wikipedia than
> the first. And they will be less and less willing to do so, if they find a
> community dominated by 15 year old star trek fans.
> 
> greetings,
> elian

What evidence do you have indicating that any such correlation exists?
Have any studies have been done on the effects of fancruft on the
average age and expertise of the editor population?

Or do you just dislike Star Trek?

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