--- Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
I've already explained this elsewhere, so I'll only give a quick summary here. Wikipedia does something _right_ by letting everyone edit. The underlying philosophy is that everyone starts out as innocent
This is equivalent to saying existing users have superior knowledge to new users. That may be in terms of wikitech, wikilawyering, wikipolitics, etc., but not knowledge of whatever articles they happen to be editing. You're claiming that the same thing you claim is wrong about the admin approval, to be suspicious of the admins intent, reliability, and knowledge, is actually being applied, at the very least, to every new user.
It seems the ruling policy, NPOV, is inherently suspicious and it's not really a problem to be suspicious from the ground up.
~~Pro-Lick http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Halliburton_Shill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pro-Lick http://www.wikiality.com/User:Pro-Lick (now a Wikia supported site)
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