":::::With capability comes responsibility. Wikipedia, I believe, has already reached a stage from where it can influence a sizeable portion of general population. Schools, Colleges, etc, have started to encourage their students to use Wikipedia as a starting point for any research. The possibility of biases must not be ignored. Misplaced trust can cost, or rather, is costing the Project its credibility. Mr. Wales, do something to counter it, before it's too late. I am not scaremongering here, btw, I am far from that. I am merely saying that we must have some sort of effective deterrence (mechanism for speedy action) in place for systematically biased group of editors. Maybe I am one of those, who knows? Even 5,000 article-edits would be very hard to trace back, and separating chaff from the wheat would then be nigh impossible. (Talk?) [ (New thread?)] 

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