Ensuring high quality sources where needed, especially science/academic topics (narrow focus)

So what? KrebMarket, no proposal here is going to prohibit most editors from editing WP the way they have been editing. If most people want the "fun factor" and edit the way you say, well, they will continue doing that.

Doing things that way has produced the encyclopedia we have. This encyclopedia has its virtues. It also has its flaws. This group is tasked to address one of its flaws. If the old way of doing things worked, we wouldn't have these flaws. Ergo, we need a new way of doing things.

But has anyone suggested that the new way displace the old way? Why does it have to be either-or? Why not this and that?

I did not see you active before but if you are on the task force, by all means, propose something you think would be better.