[WikiEN-l] a valid criticism

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On 10/7/05, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_articles_all_languages_should_have
>
> I created the above page for this specific purpose - en: has all these
> articles (or something like them), but very few are up to featured
> quality.
>
> One problem I see with the FA process is that a lot of the articles
> are incredibly esoteric. If you're a specialist in a field, you're
> highly motivated to write a REALLY GOOD article about something you
> know well. There seems to be less motivation to get the *really
> general* articles up to featured status. God help the person who tries
> to get [[Earth]] past the present FAC process and keep it under 200KB.

That's the list I was thinking of. The cleanup process is currently so
bogged down that it's hard to know what needs to be done, though. In
the meantime, I've created a template -- {{cleanup-priority}}, which
currently is a cleanup tag for any articles which are of sub-par
quality on that list (and should only be limited to that list, I
think), hopefully it will help focus things a bit. (If people disagree
with the "prioritization", well, they can argue that on the list
itself -- if we have such a list, and take it at least partially
seriously, then I think using it as a base for a prioritization scheme
is a good idea).

I think it's important that, say, [[Bill Gates]] be a decent article
(he's on the list). [[Jane Fonda]] is in my mind less of a priority
(and is not on that list).

FF