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 article edits would be very hard to trace back and separating chaff from the wheat would then be nigh impossible talk new thread