Timwi-
One article I wrote was rejected from being featured
solely on the
grounds of covering too obscure a topic.
That's because people have different ideas of what FA is supposed to be.
While I see it as an early stage quality control mechanism (and wanted
this to be reflected in the title when Brilliant Prose was renamed),
others, at least for now, consider it as little more than the process we
use to select articles to introduce readers to Wikipedia. Effectively it's
a bit of both. I believe that moving toward a well-defined peer review
process which can coexist with the FA selection will solve this problem.
I've written a bit about this here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Eloquence/Platform
Regards,
Erik