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To others: If you're a fan of any topic, there's an entry in the wikipedia for it, and likely a couple, and likely in desperate need of real editing. Avoid the hotspots, find topics you're comfortable in demonstrating authoritative knowledge in, and dig in and have fun. If you happen by those hotspots later on, people will take your point of view more seriously, and in the meantime you're going to be improving a resource that people do indeed use as a reference.

That's good advice. It looks like a lot of this is "I believe this and they believe that." That sort of thing goes on forever. But if you really know about a topic it carries a lot more weight.

If Wikipedia really is supervised by high school students they're in big trouble. At some point management will wake up and get professional or someone else will scoop away their market.

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If Wikipedia really is supervised by high school students they're in big trouble.

It is. Just look at the 10-member Arbitration Committee, which is Wikipedia's top tier of sysops aside from site owner Jimbo Wales. Half or more of them are either high school students or undergraduates in college!