If an editor is an expert in a field and you can verify it it would be most useful to the encyclopedia to treat them as such. This is not actually a special privilege but how people normally do things.

I can gather citations and glue them into an article but someone with actual expertise knows which parts are important, what isn't and what is missing.

Wikimedia is of course free to have an encyclopedia project to entertain children with to much time on their hands but they will continue to lose good editors. You can't have both.

If you disarm the man before throwing him into the alligator pit he won't survive but it will be great for the alligators.

I don't know how scientific journals manage to exist but technically it could be as simple as a link to the user page on the university professors profile page.

My favorite version is when topics are stuck decades ago and newer sources are rejected as an attempt to make the topic look real

You could ban Apple pie and extract more tax from the slaves.

People who lack enough of those req will actively get in the way.

Things like building a house for little Jimmy in it self isn't hard at all. You can also give him some [digital] textbooks, answer his questions and create a position as an apprentice wizard. There is nothing hard about doing that.

Sure, some people will try to get in the way but one unmotivated saboteur vs an army of millions isn't going to change anything.

Sometimes constructive is to preserve and protect. Don't argue with those trying to stop sensible efforts and don't pay them to get out of the way. You put them in cages or otherwise ruin their everything until they get out of the way.

But if you fail to do that and their numbers grow there is no alternative but to wait until they've destroyed enough of the good stuff for them to become miserable enough to change sides. It might take a thousand years but we will build a new glorious civilization and it will sit there waiting for people to stop caring again.

We are of course far over that hill already but destroying everything takes quite a bit of time.

I also know a guy who eats carrots all day every day. He is 80 something. Most of his teeth are still there and bright white.

Could still be genetic or considered anecdotal but to them it is completely obvious.

Then they got mad that the rest of the world didn't approve of actually doing the horrific things.

And then no one wanted to buy bonds from the country endorsing the horrific acts.

    bool w;
    int x[1000];
    int y[1000];
    for(int i=0;i<1000;i++){
      x[i] += y[i];
    }
    if(w){
      for(int i=0;i<1000;i++){
        y[i] = 0;
      }
    }

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It's called Help shark.

It's not overly ambitious to have rich text input fields or a sortable table. If you can have a half assed xpath implementation you can have a shopping cart and a product.

Someone knowledgable once ran off with a fumble of mine acting like I pulled gold from thin air.

It took the id's from the page, created strings with the same name containing the inner html, made a copy, compared the copy with the string every 50ms, if they were no longer the same the dom node and the copy were updated with the new value. Input fields compared the copy with the input value as well.

So you could do: