You might want to contact David Gerard, who has substantial experience with Wikipedia policies.
Here :-) gwern is at least as good too. Wikipedia's little ways are opaque and scary from the outside.
Simplest way is "references out to here". "The sky[1] is blue.[2][3][4]" Write your stuff, in that dull grey Wikipedia style, and festoon it with blue numbers. Highest-status references you can find (journal articles are ideal, actually famous self-published papers generally OK, blog posts frequently lose unless from the actually famous).
The threat model is "aggressive and persistent idiot armed with three-letter policy abbreviatio...
Hi all,
At the Singularity Institute we're looking for a volunteer with experience making edits to Wikipedia. The quality of some Wikipedia pages related to our subject matter could use improvement, but we would like to consult with someone who has an editing background on the way to go about it.
Please get in touch with me at michael@intelligence.org.
Thank you!