::Thelmadatter, you write about paid editing as if it were going to be funded by some philanthropic enterprise whose goal would the betterment of the encyclopedia in the interest of the spread of world knowledge. This is a possible scenario, but a highly unlikely one.  Why would anyone pay someone to write an article except for either personal vanity or commercial gain (and sometimes both together)?  No puffery, no positive spin, no paid sources, no image manangement, no on-going monitoring for a "stable" article; no chance.