Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (24)

I agree with WhatAmIDoing. Frankly, feedback from "trusted Wikipedian editors" is useless since they represent an infinitesimally small percentage of the people who are actually going to use the article. From a market research perspective, it is like doing a taste test for a new line of microwaveable lunches and instead of asking the office-cubicle crowds that are going to be using your product, you only ask "trusted users" like professional chefs.

The real value is from the actual users of the articles, the drive by anon IPs who came to the page via a google search or blog link. Sure, any open ratings system will have crap responses but you have to take the chafe with the wheat. But above all it is the readers, not the editors who shape public opinion about the accuracy and usefulness of Wikipedia. THESE are the people that you want to reach and you're not going to reach them by 1.) asking them to create an account before ratings or 2.) hiding the ratings system on the talk page where most readers don't even go to anyways

Besides, if anyone wants to know what the "trusted users" of Wiki-Illuminati think about an article it can always be submitted to FAC. But that will still tell you jack squat about what the majority of Wikipedia readers think about it.