hi domer firstly my opinions aren't welcome here secondly i'm not prepared to be trapped by yourself into 'naming and shaming' undoubtedly leading to you manipulating wiki policy to get me permanently blocked its pretty self evident to all but the most deceitful who and what i'm referring to academics have always written in encyclopedias because encyclopedias are written by experts in their field in huge editions many hundred may be involved even thousands the oxford dictionary of national biography for example has over historians writing entries thats an estimate its probably more so there is no doubt that if academics were recruited like any other scholarly project then an internet encyclopedia would be written quite easily fourthly i have nothing to contribute to this article other than the fact that encyclopedias do not use footnotes and if they did they certainly wouldn't have more than for a relatively minor topic fifthly academics have less time on their hands because they lead busy lives the sort of people that obsess over wikipedia certainly do not