2009/2/17 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com:
That would be interesting. I wonder if this could be something that could be integrated into the 1.0 rating scheme... another, parallel rating for "scope" or "generality". Naturally, any such determinations will be subjective, but so are article ratings and yet the semi-codified Stub-Start-C-B ratings tend to work out pretty well. It would be great to have the breakdown of general vs. specific articles not just for FAs, but for everything.
That might be good. It would also help when determining if an article being an orphan is a problem. Very specific articles probably won't be linked to much, more general articles will be. So, if a general article is an orphan, we have a problem, if a specific article is, we probably don't.