What makes me uncomfortable about this is that it's such a (for the most part)
insignificant article being promoted to a FA and on the main page. Not only is it eerily
short, its subject is incredibly obscure. Many of the C1K are still at start-class and
B-class, yet people still get this to the front page. Not saying it's bad; a
meaningless featured article is better than not having one at all, but I think it would be
greatly beneficial to the project and our public perception if we were to put more stress
on the core articles. When people say "Wikipedia is a bad resource", they're
not talking about a social hygiene movie from 1946, they're talking about the 118
chemical elements, many of whose articles are B or Start.
(I was working on Lutetium; halfway through my research and before I could reformat the
article I got indefinitely banned).