the primary objective of wikipedia from wikipedia exists for the people who read it not for the people who edit it every edit should either improve the factual accuracy of wikipedia or make it easier and more useful for the reader any edit which does not serve these goals is a waste of time and energy and quite possibly counterproductive adapted from beyond my ken it is not true that wikipedia exists only for the readers editors have a role to play too should wikipedia become nothing but a bunch of quotations cut and pasted here and there besides i am unable to think of any encyclopedia that is free from original research furthermore who made you guys the wikipedia police