[wpietri]

The number of people who think themselves world experts in something is truly enormous. Wikipedia needs to be maintainable by people who aren't topic experts. They can't just go around anointing people that sound expert-y to them, as that would introduce far more bias, western and otherwise.

Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.

[LocalH]

Wikipedia's job is to push forward the frontiers of the documentation of knowledge.

[wpietri]

Could you show me what Wikipedia policies you base that on? Because I don't think it's correct.

[markdown]

> Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.

Citation needed.

[dragonwriter]

> > Wikipedia's job isn't to push forward the frontiers of knowledge. It's to summarize the stuff you can look up elsewhere.

> Citation needed.

The exact policy under discussion in this sub thread (and, to a lesser extent, the other two in Wikipedia’s trio of core content policies) is exactly a statement of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_resear...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_v...

[mardifoufs]

To push forward the frontiers of knowledge is literally not the point of an encyclopedia, by definition. Even if it was, how could you see frontier pushing happen with volunteer editors ? With more unsourced/trust me bro/self describes experts editing online? I kind of doubt that

[ericye16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research