Response from: Quentin Marks (Check me out!)

i've been wondering when they would start regulating publicly editable online media like the wikipedia. this event was long in coming. thanks for the link!

Response from: Jonathan (Check me out!)

No problem. For some time now, I've considered the benefits of a bicameral rating system on Wikipedia to alert readers of flagged authenticity in an article. Composed of an "elite" group of elected editors and anyone on the internet, two disparate ratings could be compiled and displayed on a Lichter scale (1-7) for categories like "authenticity", "grammar", "depth", "bias", etc. If you've seen "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", you'll know the audience almost always gets it right. For when the audience is getting it wrong, the rating displayed by elected editors displayed adjacently to the public rating to alert new readers to this fact. An X-Y graph (X being time, Y being Lichter rating) could show the progression of an article's value over time. To avoid the same individual tainting a rating by voting repeatedly, IP addresses could be blocked for a specific amount of time on each article after issuing a rating, i.e., a week or two. Thanks for the comment!