it is not the "less obviously notable things" that lower the actual quality, it's the poor articles regardless of subject. When good articles on intrinsically less important topics attract unfavorable attention it's because they stand in such contrast to the sketch and low quality poorly referenced articles on subjects that are generally recognized as more importance.
The solution is actually simple, at least in concept: to work on adding to and improving the articles that represent what you individually think the content should be focused on. But it does take work, much more work than trying to delete the articles you individually don't think important.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Ian Woollard ian.woollard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/03/2008, Philip Sandifer snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Probably not. The thing is the wikipedia gets to be the top of google searches because it's generally fairly reliable. Likewise high up in the web rankings. If we start allowing less obviously notable things in, then the average quality can only go down, and eventually that will get reflected in how people treat us.