The necessary level of respect for differentially informed perspectives is just not present there. The prerequisite order of critical reflection on whatever point of view is currently dominant is just not possible there.

The pretence of neutrality cast in the Iron Cage of WP:NPOV and the pretence of objectivity cast in the Leaden Eye of WP:NOR simply do not allow a genuine negotiation among different views to proceed, much less to succeed there.

I think that it can make for a very healthy intellectual exercise to run the flags of our various and sundry dispositions up the flagpole of a project to build the Ideal Distributed Encyclopedia — just so long as we understand that nothing like the winds of critical reflective practice will ever disturb the doldrums of Wikipedia itself.

There is but one brand of banner that holds sway over that field.