“People do not like this democracy of ideas!”, I declared. “No-one wants some faceless, nameless crowd telling him what’s right”.
Clearly, saying “Wikipedia says that…” or “Wikipedia tells us that…” is pure bunk. You can’t trust a shifting, amorphous blob of knowledge and experience, sloppily edited and sporadically sourced. What we need, what we crave, as a culture, is a figure of authority to tell us what’s right and what’s wrong!

So my proposition is that whenever I’m about to say “Wikipedia says…”, I’ll instead replace it with “Jimmy says…”. Jimmy shall be our Wikipedia surrogate, named after Jimmy Wales, of course. Jimmy will be this smart-alecky kid who always has an answer for any question you throw his way, even obscure references out of left field. A sort of geeky know-it-all with a smug sense of self-satisfaction whenever he gets something right.

And then I realized I was just projecting myself, and decided to leave well enough alone.