[WikiEN-l] Discussion of Wikipedia content issues

[Louis Kyu Won Ryu]

Recently, Adam Carr contributed a well-researched writeup about 
Wikipedia article quality.  It has since been moved to the meta.
I am concerned that it will receive little attention on the meta, 
because relatively few Wikipedians read the meta, and those few that do 
are not representative of the community.

I believe such discussions should take place in the Wikipedia: or 
Wikipedia_talk: article spaces, now that these are available, so that 
the discussion appears in recent changes, and so that it is seen by 
everyone who may be interested.  Apparently there is a standing policy 
against such discussions in those article spaces.  I believe the policy 
should change.

The meta is useful for discussing the technical arcana, interlanguage 
issues, and nuts-and-bolts issues of logos and press releases and so 
forth.  But I believe it is a mistake to send general-interest 
discussions about article content there.  All they get is a decent burial.

Louis