On 10/2/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/2/05, Tony Sidaway f.crdfa@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't a problem. It's what has made English Wikipedia one of the largest reference works in the English language.
It is a problem becuase you run into the issue of not very good articles. Your proposal won't work because only a very small number of people want to work on subjects they are not interested in when they could work on subjects they are interested in.
We don't want "not very good articles" on the main page. I still don't see how your observation of people's personal preferences supports your argument that this is a "problem".
Articles on subjects in which nobody shows any interest should probably
not
be on our main page.
Really? Lets look at [[Algerian Civil War]]. Featured article. Look how short it's talk page is. Go back to before it was on the main page and you will find it was basicaly wirtten by [[User:Mustafaa]]. That is how interested people were in the topic.
If as you claim only one person is interested in it, what's it doing as a FA?