Editing Encyclopedia:Historical archive/Policy/Approval mechanism (section)

===Advantages===

The advantages of an approval mechanism of the sort described are clear and numerous:
* We will encourage the creation of [[Wikipedia:brilliant prose|really good content]].
* Large, reputable websites and the web in general are more likely to use and|or link to our content if it has been approved by experts. ''And, especially, if the current version of an article has a persistent URL that they can link to. At present only a past version of an article actually has such a URL!''
* The addition of an approval mechanism will be attractive to academics who might not participate without it&mdash;particularly the academics who might want to be reviewers. ''All that matters is a mass of [[GNU FDL]] text on important topics that is good enough for serious scholars to find worth correcting. [[User:EntmootsOfTrolls|EofT]]''
* What does "All that matters is a mass of GNU FDL text on important topics that is good enough for serious scholars to find worth correcting." mean? [[User:Brianjd|Brian]][[User talk:Brianjd|j]][[Special:Contributions/Brianjd|d]] 10:22, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
* It makes it easier to collect the best articles on Wikipedia and create completed "snapshots" of them that could be printed and distributed, for example.  ''This issue is central to [[Wikipedia:Pushing to 1.0|Pushing to 1.0]].''

Generally, Wikipedia will become comparable to nearly any encyclopedia, once enough articles are approved. ''It need not be perfect, just better than [[Britannica]] and [[Encarta]] and [[ODP]] and other CD or Web resources.''