On 9/20/05, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
is there a certain point where contributors will find it far easier to work on existing articles than to contribute new ones? (This is a problem that I doubt we'll encounter until Wikipedia reaches somewhere between 5 & 10 million articles, but I think it is a potential problem.) If there is such a tipping point, we may find that AfD (in whatever form it has at the time) not only will be able to keep up with the flow, but may actually reduce the size of Wikipedia!
If this should ever become a serious problem, the GFDL ensures that the information removed can be copied and retained indefinitely.