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

Well, I have already prooised we create a stage between "registered users" and "admins" (for page protection purposes) - if going through this tutorial were required of the new proposed stage, i would say fine.

But I am not so quick to back down concerning regisered users. Remember, we are not talk about someone's first contact, for most people that is as an anonymous editor and this does not stop people for being anonymous editors.

In the meantime, I daresay we have more registered users than we need. Or I should say, we have more registered users who degrade quality than enhance it - they do notget our basic policies and shirk from doing research. Even ifmy suggestion alienated half of them, even two thirds of them, if the rmaining, who registered, when through the 15 minute tutorial I suggested, Wikipedia would be a far better place than it is today.

Folks, is quality a problemn or is it not?

If it is, don't we need to make soe changes?