David Gerard wrote:
2009/7/14 Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com:
I think you're probably right that a new departure needs to be made: we're at best mediocre at devising new "recognition mechanisms". How about a project aimed (since we are coming up to three million articles) at shifting the balance of stubs and other really substandard articles before we get to four million? We'll get to the end of the first decade of WP in 2011 before that happens. And I think we need some kind of two-dimensional plot, not single scale: urgency assessment as well as quality assessment.
I fear the first thing that would spring to the community's beautiful collective mind would be a mass deletion of all stubs.
That's the issue with one-dimensional thinking, certainly.
Charles