[Wikipedia-l] An idea

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 6/1/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> What if the crackpot opens a RfC to get other people's opinions about
> who is correct, and they all agree with the crackpot because his
> version of the truth "sounds better"? Thus the crackpot version gets
> written into the article semipermanently, and any further attempts by
> the smart person to remove it from the article will be seen as
> anything from a troublesome annoyance to vicious vandalism.

But NPOV says we should be prefering citable resources over odd straw
polls on wikipedia. Voting is harmful, just another example.  Creds
don't help the problem much... but I don't think having them would
hurt.