Alex Sawczynec wrote:
Would this explain why so many users are retiring?
I, for one, have found myself not editing nearly as much as I used to in recent months. I'm pretty sure that dropoff started for me with the Characters and Episodes debacle. Even though I don't generally contribute to such articles myself seeing so much work being systematically thrown away was very disheartening and makes me wonder whether my contributions in other areas will be kept.
Quantity is a quality of its own, IMO. Wikipedia's comprehensiveness of coverage is one of its big strengths.