The problem with Wikipedia editors isn’t that many of them are so young. It’s that they’re so unqualified (educationally). Many of the oldest contributors to Wikipedia are also the most idiotic; a certain type of retiree seems drawn to the place. Really, the ideal Wikipedia editor is a graduate student in his/her twenties. Maybe you want the contributors to be tenured professors, but most of them have far better things to do with their time. Young graduate students (say someone who’s 24 years old and in a PhD program) have more than adequate academic qualifications and experience; they also have few avenues open for publication (and generally the desire to write fro the public), so they are truly the best sort of contributor to recruit.

I imagine your criticism is really more about high school students. If it is, then say so. Of course, in my experience, most of the high school kids running around either spend all their time reverting vandalism or writing about the latest internet meme, activities that are simply irrelevant.

As a SIX year old I probably knew more about the life of Galileo than 99.99% of people know in their entire life. Was I some sort of savant? Hell no! I just read books and did RESEARCH out of pure curiosity and interest.

That’s because you didn’t have Wikipedia and Google to distract you from gaining real knowledge.

But the 99.99% of ignoramuses who think they know about Galileo’s life are now controlling the article. And so knowledge is lost - Vaknin’s “negative filter” in operation.

Following that up with an irrelevant anecdotal tale about yourself as a six year old, and ending with a childish insult, you pro-Wikipedians consistently prove critics’ points at every turn! You simply do not have the minimum whereabouts, integrity or decency to responsibly oversee the Sum of All Human Knowledge.

What a ridiculous assertion. “All teenagers are incapable of sorting fact from fiction”? “All teenagers are incapable of performing in-depth research”? Do you hear yourself?

As a SIX year old I probably knew more about the life of Galileo than 99.99% of people know in their entire life. Was I some sort of savant? Hell no! I just read books and did RESEARCH out of pure curiosity and interest.

If a six year old can do it, why the hell not a sixteen year old?

Moron.

What’s the diff between a Discussion Forum that calls itself a “Discussion Forum” and a Discussion Forum that calls itself an “Encyclopedia”?