[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Anthony Simone]

Andrew Turvey wrote:
> ----- "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote: 
>   
>> From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> 
>> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
>> Sent: Monday, 13 July, 2009 03:29:06 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
>> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn 
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-06/Features_and_admins 
>>
>> I couldn't help but notice: 
>> * Five articles were promoted to featured status this week 
>> * Four articles were delisted this week. 
>> * Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week 
>> * Eight lists were delisted this week 
>>     
>
> I often wondered - what's the point of delisting? Surely if a previous version of an article was good enough to be Featured, if the current version isn't, you should just restore the one that was? 
>
> Or am I missing something? 
>
> Andrew 
The problem is that the FA standards have changed over time, becoming 
more strict. So, it is very possible that if an article reached FA 
several years ago, then no version of it would pass today's FA criteria.

Firestorm