Oh - and when I speak of 100,000 Featured Articles, I quite definitely don't mean articles that run the gauntlet of FAC as it presently stands. I just read all of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates
That's just from the last month. Note the excellent start, where someone complaining about the idiocy of the process is told to go away and learn to write ... and has to point out to the objectors that he'd just scored a couple of FAs.
Any process that promotes this much bile and vitriol is fundamentally damaging to Wikipedia's community operation and in need of severe process-culling for sheer poisonousness.
Perhaps from the Arbitration Committee. If only one of them was the Featured Articles Director ...
- d.