Wikipedia:Communism

"I can't imagine having my golden prose edited by any passer-by. It's mine, so why would I let others touch it?"

"Some persistent cranks could write up a crankish page on the Holocaust, and keep reverting it back to their version."

"Many ignorant people who think they know stuff will riddle articles with errors and serious omissions."

"What if an article never gets corrected and over time, just gets worse?"

"What about advertisers? Will those with a product or service to hawk see the opportunity to hit a targeted market and write new articles for their product or worse, edit the article that corresponds to their generic product class (e.g., computer) to an ad for their product?"

"A giant 'under construction' sign should be on almost every article."

"I looked at an area that I know something about, and found all sorts of errors and omissions. I was surprised and amused. I don't want to be associated with something of this low quality."

"Good quality requires peer review and expertise. Why should we care about articles written by an arbitrary group of people whose knowledge and ability could range from expertise to hopeless ignorance? Ignorance mixed with knowledge does not benefit knowledge."

"Look, all this speculation and 'experimentation' is fine and well, but if there's one thing I've learned in my studies, it's that you must know something about the author and his/her qualifications to speak on the topic – or at least be provided with appropriate references to support his/her claims in order to evaluate the validity of a nonfiction work."

That said, perhaps someone who has the above suggestion will be pleased by the approval system mentioned above and which can be found discussed at , and . Such a system would identify a body of experts that would put its official stamp of approval on some articles. Those articles could still be just as easily revised as they were before, but there would also be a version that would be presented as the "approved" version. This way we can "freeze" high-quality content without freezing the process.

"One great source – if you can trust it." [1]

"Many of your replies seem to assume that quality will improve as the website grows, but quantity doesn't always beget quality. Perhaps it will get worse as it gets bigger?"

"You may have grown fast in the past, but it's surely wrong to suppose that the growth rate in the past is a good indication of what will happen in the future."

"I am afraid you have some similarity with the communists. You should promote the values of capitalism and the free market; such as competition, individual property and intellectual property."

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