On 10/7/05, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should...
I created the above page for this specific purpose - en: has all these articles (or something like them), but very few are up to featured quality.
One problem I see with the FA process is that a lot of the articles are incredibly esoteric. If you're a specialist in a field, you're highly motivated to write a REALLY GOOD article about something you know well. There seems to be less motivation to get the *really general* articles up to featured status. God help the person who tries to get [[Earth]] past the present FAC process and keep it under 200KB.
That's the list I was thinking of. The cleanup process is currently so bogged down that it's hard to know what needs to be done, though. In the meantime, I've created a template -- {{cleanup-priority}}, which currently is a cleanup tag for any articles which are of sub-par quality on that list (and should only be limited to that list, I think), hopefully it will help focus things a bit. (If people disagree with the "prioritization", well, they can argue that on the list itself -- if we have such a list, and take it at least partially seriously, then I think using it as a base for a prioritization scheme is a good idea).
I think it's important that, say, [[Bill Gates]] be a decent article (he's on the list). [[Jane Fonda]] is in my mind less of a priority (and is not on that list).
FF