Neil Harris wrote:
How about this: we call what the existing count measures "article entries" or "entries" and articles that fit the new, more tightly defined count's rules are then called "substantial articles" or just "articles".
So, the Main Page would say,
"we already have 31522 substantial articles (out of a total of 43726 article entries)"
We could then have both "Random article" and "Random entry".
That sounds better to me... I use the random button as a means of finding double redirects, year templates without any content, pathetic stubs, spelling mistakes that need correcting etc. If all of these were cut out, its usefulness to me would be slashed. When I come to a lengthy page with the random button I just move on, because I assume that the article doesn't need my sort of work on it anymore.