Ownership

That may be a very good question "There is a quandry at the heart of WP: what is authority? " Officially the project aims to put together the finest quality encyclopedia possible, and there is no authority whatsoever but only the NPoV, NOR, and V standard against which contributions are to be measured.

In practice, it does not work this way and there are lots of users that do claim and do exercise authority. Most of these don't hold by the NPoV, NOR, and V standard, but base their claim on a consensus and a community; their policing (and enforcing of whatever it is that they feel they are an authority on) scares away those that do follow the NPoV, NOR, and V standard. - Brya 05:45, 2 February 2010 (UTC)