Robth wrote:
Remember, people learn to write Wikipedia by reading
Wikipedia. If we're going to relax our content standards
substantially for one area, people are going to carry the lessons they
learn from reading that area into the rest of Wikipedia.
Do you have any evidence for that theory? Those who are interested only
in "serious" subjects are not likely to spend a lot of time with the
flakier subjects in order to learn how to write for Wikipedia. We also
have Study Groups (aka WikiProjects) which do a pretty good job setting
standards for their area of interest.
Ec