After an influential contributor and administrator at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia was found last week to have invented a history of academic credentials, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s co-founder and globetrotting advocate, called for a voluntary system for accrediting contributors who say they have advanced degrees, like a Ph.D or M.D....

<snark>But, but Wikipedia is for everyone, right?!? Isn't my research and writing on particle physics and neurology as valid as anyone else's?</snark>