[WikiEN-l] Deterioration of Featured Articles

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/10/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> If articles don't deteriorate, why do they get de-featured?
>
> Deterioration happens when:
>
> - Vandalism goes unnoticed, especially sneaky (fact-changing) or
> blanking-type vandalism
> - Random crud (aka. "cruft") gets added
> - Other stuff which we can't quantify yet

Deterioration is bad. But is it sufficiently common to be a problem?
What are the relative rates of FA->non FA vs non-FA->FA transition?

Steve