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The Wikipedia debate

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Right Life, that is what I was going to say. A voting system is a bad idea. Anyone could vote on everything. I visit Wikipedia to learn. If I am expected to vote on something I learned 2 minutes ago, my thoughts might not accurately depict the quality of the article.
 
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Another way to validate actual content might be to have experts in th fields to comment on the articles
 
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Another way to validate actual content might be to have experts in th fields to comment on the articles

In theory it would work, but it would make a lot of work for Wikipedia. Then you could have the debate on whether a certain person is actually an accepted expert in the field. Then you would have to have a rating system to rate the experts that rate the articles. ;D lol.
 
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Assuming these experts will want to take time out of their day to read all this and rate it Pro Bono.
 

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