Wikipedia:Bicameral authenticity system

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In light of the recent controversies and the long-term need for improving the quality of Wikipedia articles, I am proposing a new bicameral rating system on Wikipedia be implemented to alert readers of flagged authenticity in an article. Composed of a group of elected editors and anyone on the internet, two disparate ratings could be compiled and displayed on a Lichter scale (1-7) for categories like "authenticity", "grammar", "depth", "bias", etc. If you've seen "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire", you'll know the audience almost always gets it right. For when the audience is getting it wrong, the rating by elected editors would be displayed adjacently to the public rating to alert new readers to this fact. An X-Y graph (X being time, Y being Lichter rating) could show the progression of an article's value over time. To avoid the same individual tainting a rating by voting repeatedly, IP addresses could be blocked for a specific amount of time on each article after issuing a rating, i.e., a week or two.