On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I'm sure a lot of our featured articles are very, very good, and some of them must be about as good as we can get. But yes, perhaps we should stop saying "eatured articles are considered to be the best articles in Wikipedia, as determined by Wikipedia's editors". I don't often actually need to look at featured articles, because most articles aren't featured. However this is the second time I've had to remove an article from the list because it was so far from good that it was an embarrassment to Wikipedia. The last one was eighteen months ago, I think.
Like any process on Wikipedia, FAC falls down at times.
One problem is selection bias; it's only selected by people that are interested in showing up. This generally means either (1) FAC regulars - those with an interest in the featured article process, or; (2) those interested in the subject matter.
I note in this case the nomination received only two supports and a few comments for promotion.
-Matt