Most of the enforced standards on en.wn --- for purposes of review time,
which *is* the primary limiting factor in our output --- are about not
plagiarizing, and about being accurate. (It's striking how many people,
even college students, have no clue how to use a source without plagiarizing
from it.) *Obviously* we want to find ways to leverage reviewers' time
better so as to improve our efficiency at such things (I'd like to think
it's obvious, anyway; focusing on stuff like that would be productive), but
whatever it takes to enforce those things is part of being a news site.
There are other really important things that make contributing a challenge,
but they aren't dominant in limiting our output and are also part of being
news site or of being a quality news site (and they too are valuable skills
for authors to acquire) --- focusing on a news event (which makes us hard
news and is closely related to npov), inverted pyramid style, writing
clearly and for an international audience.