Feel free to edit this proposal. I just see experts in things around all the time, we might as well make it easier to find them by making it official. Karmafist 06:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's an interesting idea, but personally I would prefer the current informal expert acknowledgement we have now. Even if we claim we give no special editing status to these people, in practice people could develop blind faith in a title. This is made even more important by the fact that most experts have highly specialised in just parts of subfields of a field, and aren't necessarily entitled to speak on even the whole field - never mind all topics. I think it's healthy to approach every new person with no presupposed view of their skills or intentions. Deco 08:33, 19 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]