> Today I summarily removed the Featured Article
status from an article,
> [[Iraqi insurgency]], because it's now such an unholy mess, with two
> competing versions each pushing a point of view, and full of
> unreferenced
> statements and opinions represented as fact. And yet that article
> survived a
> move to remove its featured status as recently as June, 2005.
> Assuming that
> the earlier version really was better than the mess that exists today,
> perhaps it would be as well to revert to that version and to find
> ways to
> incorporate later work on this current event without degrading it.
Yes. Maintaining a featured article is a pretty thankless job :).
Thanks,
Ryan
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