On 13/09/06, Matt Brown <morven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
IOW, if the overall quality of the
encyclopedia increases, it's likely that FAC will become even pickier
so that their criteria only pass the same proportion.
I believe this is in fact a standard view on FAC - that if too many
articles are passing then they need to be pickier. Which is fine if
its goal is to award prizes for exceptional brilliance, but not if
it's to pull up the quality of the whole encyclopedia - which is what
I meant about whether the amount of editor work it takes to get past
FAC is actually worth it for the effect on the article.
- d.