Relevant discussion at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#Proposed_ne...
Fortuitously, my team has just started research and design work related to article creation fixes. We won't be starting development immediately by any means, but you can check out what we've written so far at:
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article_creation and - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_article_creation