On 12/09/06, maru dubshinki marudubshinki@gmail.com wrote:
- The field "Requests" on "Recent Changes" be changed to "Requested feature
articles." Instead of asking people to create brand new article, the focus should be on improving existing articles.
Impossible. Featured articles are determined by FAC, which is as ridden or more so with politics as AFD, DRV, and other such eyesores: standards are constantly shifting and unevenly applied. Good Articles itself has turned into a mockery of FAC.
Yes and no. GA is often a mockery of FAC - I am currently musing over one near-incomprehensible objection to an article of mine - but it doesn't have to be; all it needs is someone to list the article and someone else to say "yup, sure, that's decent".
There's no real reason the process can't be decentralised further, by having most of the review work done by individual wikiprojects or the like, and just listed centrally for some transparency - it's just we seem to have fallen into this highly centralised system which plays up the FAC-like issues.
Most Featured Articles are great articles, but most great articles are not FAs.
Indeed. Perhaps we just need to ask Raul to be a little more sharp with silly objections