On 1/4/08, gwern0@gmail.com gwern0@gmail.com wrote:
A brilliant idea. The logical next step is to start deleting all the video game and pop culture articles like Pokemon - we can then channel all the spare editor energy into sprucing up the year articles once the events are all cleaned up.
Gratuitous sarcasm aside, I think you're wrong. The reason you can't "rechannel" pokemon editors' efforts into history is because history doesn't interest them, and they have no expertise. Stopping people working on pokemon articles doesn't really improve other areas. But the editors who work on year articles are likely to have interest in that area and could conceivably put their efforts elsewhere.
Really though, good decade articles would be far more useful than good individual year articles. Articles like [[1650s in fashion]] or whatever are pretty cool.
Steve