== Fundamental weaknesses of Wikipedia == 

 #its limited ability to protect itself against POV-pushers, of which the three worst types (in the areas  edits) are communists, petty nationalists and LaRouche cult members, and  
 #its inability to achieve a stable body of completed work which readers can rely on and cite - which is the function of an encyclopaedia. 

 I agree with your assessment of the problem, but edit wars won't solve it. We'll just have to think of something else. While I'm on vacation, maybe an idea will occur to one of us.