Wikipedia Profile
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User ChaseKiwi tends to be only active for a restricted range of topics, as a dilettante. Historically there has been too much diversity of input on some topics in Wikipedia, for it to be fully trusted by professionals in the respective fields. Indeed unless gross error ChaseKiwi will tend to stay away from areas where ChaseKiwi's professional expertise as a subject-matter expert is associated with remuneration or quango like activity to avoid conflict of interest. Allowing others easier access to alternative views that may appear to ChaseKiwi to be inconsistent with evidence, especially if not referenced to Independent sources can help identify possible misconceptions or cultural issues in the rich diversity of perception, hidden information and lack of analytic ability that professionals have to manage. Some contributions seem to have withstood the test of time and plenty of articles could do with improvement so input continues from this user who agrees with the English wikipedia policies. The inability of individuals and human subcultures to learn from others unless a threshold is crossed, might be mitigated by information being available in more digestible form. There has been a tendency of the site to improve, with not unexpected spectacular failures when information is shaded by those with an agenda. There remains the risk that the site is weakened by an assumption that those that do the most, are the most to be trusted as an editor, when expertise on a topic and its reliable sources that help neutrality without straying into original research can be somewhat time consuming to evolve and involve other activities than wiki editing.
