On 10/2/05, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"Tony Sidaway" wrote
If as you claim only one person is interested in it, what's it doing as a
FA?
Come now, it doesn't work like that.
I know how it works. I'm suggesting that articles of no interest to anyone except the author (and I don't happen to think the example given comes anywhere near qualifying for that particular condition) probably shouldn't be FAs. Conversely, articles of wide interest, even though imperfect, should probably take precedence over polished articles on less interesting subjects. The main page isn't really the right place to showcase solely writing and organisational skills, because really those are very much subsidiary to making useful information accessible to all.
In short, the answer to worries about having too few featured articles is to feature far more, many many times more, articles on the main page. Even those ten randomly chosen articles wouldn't take much work to make them perfectly acceptable for the main page.