I also researched 3 of the contributing editors who made changes or flagged issues with the article. I have listed some of the personal information provided about each member.
- Alan Peakall
- Born: August 22 1964 near Newbury, Berkshire
- Citizen and resident of: United Kingdom
- Educated: various, including Cambridge University
- Occupation: Software Engineer
- this contributor seems to have much experience in engineering, esp the doppler effect, as it applies to technology.
- User:Binksternet
- First edit: July 28, 2007
- Unique pages edited: over 24,000
- Total edits: over 90,000
- Top 260 at WP:List of Wikipedians by number of edits (and I don't use a bot)
- this contributor has high rankings as a senior editor for wikipedia. clearly with the number of edits made, we can see this person is adamant about making reliable postings and has much experience "cleaning up" wikipedia.
- Mattias Blennow
- Hometown: Stockholm, Sweden
- Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
- Occupation: Assistant professor, Royal Institute of Technology
- Research interests: Mainly neutrino physics and dark matter physics. A feed with my papers on the arXiv can be found here.
- this contributor is clearly as expert in the subject area, being a professor of physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, and who is doing research into dark matter and neutrino physics.
The fact that these professional individuals are the ones who are catching errors in the article and correcting them make me have more confidence in the article. That being said, it make me wonder at how horrible the original version must have been for these people to have to make or suggest so many revisions. I am glad that there are professionals who are willing to take the time and effort to do this, so that information in Wikipedia can evolve into a truly reliable resource.
Nice analysis of this Wikipedia Article
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