On 13/09/06, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
IOW, if the overall quality of the encyclopedia increases, it's likely that FAC will become even pickier so that their criteria only pass the same proportion.
I believe this is in fact a standard view on FAC - that if too many articles are passing then they need to be pickier. Which is fine if its goal is to award prizes for exceptional brilliance, but not if it's to pull up the quality of the whole encyclopedia - which is what I meant about whether the amount of editor work it takes to get past FAC is actually worth it for the effect on the article.
- d.