[WikiEN-l] 100, 000 FAs as an achievable goal with a plan (was Contest and quality)

[Sean Barrett]

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David Gerard stated for the record:

> Oh - and when I speak of 100,000 Featured Articles, I quite definitely
> don't mean articles that run the gauntlet of FAC as it presently
> stands. I just read all of this page:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Featured_article_candidates
> 
> That's just from the last month. Note the excellent start, where
> someone complaining about the idiocy of the process is told to go away
> and learn to write ... and has to point out to the objectors that he'd
> just scored a couple of FAs.
> 
> Any process that promotes this much bile and vitriol is fundamentally
> damaging to Wikipedia's community operation and in need of severe
> process-culling for sheer poisonousness.
> 
> Perhaps from the Arbitration Committee. If only one of them was the
> Featured Articles Director ...
> 
> 
> - d.

Hmmm.  I will no longer be an Arbiter after the end of this term.  Your
idea is intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

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 Sean Barrett     | I'm tired of getting the fuzzy
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