Steve Bennett-4 wrote:
Again, replace Star Trek with Pokemon (my favourite punching bag, for no real reason). Would you really entrust Pokemon fans with deciding which Pokemon articles are notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia? Surely your proposal simply leads to vastly greater inclusion rates.
But if all of those articles were of good quality and well referenced, who could possibly object? Those articles are still subject to fearless editing from anybody who wants to fix the often egregious grammar and spelling (as is common elsewhere I should add :-). Also WP:NOT paper, remember? It's not as if those articles on Pokemon are taking up space which would otherwise be available for your own pet subject.
Also, that knife cuts both ways: you could set up your own WikiProject(s) to cover your areas of interest. Would you want armies of Pokemon fans hammering your articles because they don't think they're notable?
Actually, come to think of it, doesn't it seem interesting that you don't often see a Pokemon fan trying to have huge swathes of articles on other subjects removed because they don't recognise the subjects? Maybe some people could learn a bit of tolerance from their example...