QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Mon 19th November 2007, 1:40am)
"We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby." --Jimbo Wales, quoted in the NY Times
The snobbiness comes across as "erratic and arrogant."
The repudiation of the democratic model begs the question of what group decision-making model is at work in WP.
It appears to be an erratic and arrogant oligarchy.
Other, more pithy names for it might be:
Dysfunctiony
Dramocracy
Tragedy