Steve Bennett wrote:
Zero. Now, if all the people who had put 20 hours into Pokemon articles had instead put 5 hours into Pokemon articles, and 15 hours into cleanup of random articles, don't you think Wikipedia would be better off?
I doubt it, because I suspect most of them would put the 5 hours of Pokemon-writing in and then spend the next 15 hours somewhere other than Wikipedia. The fact that they spent 20 hours writing about Pokemon and no hours doing random cleanup is a strong indication that they really do like writing about Pokemon, and really _don't_ like doing random cleanup.
Myself, I love random cleanup. I spend some days on Wikipedia doing nothing but random-paging around, tidying categories for subjects I care nothing about, formatting references, etc. If I was told on one of those days that I had to write ten kilobytes of text about the movie "Barbie: Mermaidia" instead, I'd probably just go build new shelving for my room or something. So it's a good thing there are people on Wikipedia with a wide variety of interests, and provided the articles conform to our basic policies (NOR, NPOV, etc) I will never denigrate those interests even if they don't match my own.