On 21/09/06, Brad Patrick bradp.wmf@gmail.com wrote:
Let's call a spade a spade. Raul654 calls himself whatever he calls himself whilst running FA in en:wp. Great - I'm glad some"one" does it. But the project requires much much more than just one person's work. That is the whole point. One person isn't going to manage 100K top-notch articles. We are pushing the quality up across the board and fulfilling Jimbo's challenge at WM06 this year - less about new articles - more about better articles.
I'm certainly not going to knock Raul's work managing that particular herd of cats - I spent a lot of time participating in FAC over 2004 and 2005, and a Featured Articles *Dictator* who doesn't take crap is what the job as it stands needs and he does it well.
(That it needs a dictator is somewhat worrying, and that it gets personal is also somewhat worrying, but those are different questions.)
But en:WP:FAC can't scale because it's based on an individual review process by an ad-hoc committee, and a committee can't possibly scale. So we can't assume the present FAC process.
However, the standards set by FA are as exemplary for Wikipedia as they aim to be.
- d.