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.
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