On 10/2/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/2/05, Ryan W. (Merovingian) bigwiki@earthling.net wrote:
Blargh, I don't know. I was talking more about AfD, though.
Nevertheless, the FAC process needs to go faster. Look at last week: we
gained four and >lost three FAs. That comes out to a total gain of one. This is unacceptable.
The standards for a FA are increaseing.
If this is an accurate statement of the problem, and the reason for it, then I fail to see a real problem. Articles whose quality degrades over time can be reverted to an acceptable version. If the problem is rising standards, stop raising the standards.
And adopt a more productive process. The current process is sterile, masturbatory and in my opinion does not produce articles of high quality, but rather encourages editors to indulge the stylistic quibbles of a few voters.
What if we took 100 articles every day, chosen at random. Debate whether they are not worthy of featured status. After five days all articles *except* those for which there is a consensus that they aren't featurable are raised to featured status. There is no reason why we shouldn't treat any random article as featurable on our front if there is not a good argument not to.
We could delete AfD and redirect to this process. I'm only half joking. Think of it as a Modest Proposal. If the problem is that keep voters on AfD are squandering their talents on borderline articles, get them to refocus on cleaning up potential FAs.
As a test, here are the first ten articles I obtained just now by pressing the Random Page link. I did a quick cleanup where on the first one (Mis-Teeq) but left the others alone. I see no reason why any one of these, save one, shouldn't appear on our front. They're all informative on their subject and correctly represent Wikipedia as a very eclectic work in progress. Come on, who ever thought there'd be a law case called " U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessarieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._v._One_Package_of_Japanese_Pessaries "?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mis-Teeq
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_of_Abkhazia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Wildlife_Trusts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swingers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_Hunt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Belli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Chi_Alpha
The exception of the ten is this one, which in my opinion needs extensive cleanup and expansion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_contraception