QUOTE(Nerd @ Tue 23rd June 2009, 2:44pm)
Destroying hundreds of people's lives simply because you disagree with them doesn't sound like the most wonderful of ideas.
Are you joking? This would be
returning their lives. Like discovering a risk-free antidote to heroin addiction.
The solution here is embedded in the question: the problem is not the (flawed, rife with error) database of Wikipedia, but the community itself. How do you destroy a (volunteer) community? Make it deeply unpopular, or provide a compelling alternative. One of the reasons WP won't implement flagged revisions is that it would create a strong disincentive to drive-by editing, the source of much of the "community". I'd start there.