It appears to
me that at least a large minority of them aren't written
by an "ignorant newbie" but by a "smart newbie." Each and every one
of
them is one more problem that some wikipedian has to deal with. Seems
to me like the whole AFC thing has just managed to move the problem to
another place. AFC = AFD in reverse.
No, the great thing about AfC is no one has to deal with it at all. If
we stopped working on AfC, then Wikipedia would simply lose a little
bit of growth. By contrast, if we stopped working on AfD, then
Wikipedia would fairly dramatically fill up with total crud.
By and large, AfC is a lot less work for any given article than AfD
is. "Bad" AfCs can simply be ignored. "Good" ones take a couple of
minutes, but at least we end up with a useful, well-formatted article
out of the deal.
I think you are suffering from the My Perspective is the Only One that
Counts syndrome. Try submitting a few articles to AFC as an anon user
and then tell us how nice it is.
--
mvh Björn