On 5/26/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote: In what ways deteriorated? A couple of examples would be great for the discussion. Have new facts been added, in a way that is stylistically inferior to the rest of the article? That can be fixed. Have new facts been added that really need not be there? They can be removed, when someone decides to take an overall view of the article - most of the time when people add stuff in articles, they do not do that. Have important facts been removed? That is more troublesome, as it is more job to dig it out of the page history. If the article has in fact detoriorated - who has not someone dug the old, better version out and replaced the new one, or (probably preferrably) created an imbetween? unless really all of the new edits were 100% bad. The better the article, the less chance that a given edit is an improvement but still - IMHO the wiki way in reality sometimes has to be four steps forward and three steps back. Not every edit will in itself be an improvement, but they might form the background to help someone else make the article better. /habj

Philip Welch wrote: This already unofficially happens, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Some articles are indeed neglected, but there are many on which you can't change so much as a bit of wording without attracting attention. WikiProjects and setting up "related changes" watchlists are one way some people try to organize such oversight. It seems to work pretty well in some areas, and not even just for featured articles---if you add a new page to any subcategory of [[Category:Mathematics]], you're likely to get someone stopping by within the next few hours to fiddle with some part of it or another. (But then we have some very good and diligent mathematics editors.) -Mark

On 5/28/06, Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> wrote: What should happen in this case is that those articles should be degraded to "A class" (see [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment]]). Hopefully this would cause less pain than the current featured/non featured demotion? Steve