Andries Krugers Dagneaux wrote
I hope that editors who read this will help to
distract attention of
other editors from the main articles to the ancillary articles to enable
the overall better quality of Wikipedia.
I definitely agree with the main point. The basic task of Wikipedia at
present seems to be to extend its coverage, of good average articles, to the
point where it really can be called 'comprehensive'. There are still many
topics, for example, taught at undergraduate level at universities, that
have scanty or no explanation. I have noticed, to my pleasure, that short
articles in the humanities (where I have no particular expertise) that I
have contributed to, do tend to be upgraded, on a time scale of six months
or so. Still, we need much more.
On the specific matters of people nit-picking in main articles, and trying
to push their points of view, that is to some extent just human nature (or
at least Wikipedian nature). Main articles afford a measure of recognition
to authors, too. With the expansion of WP, there is less
recognition-per-person, I think. Therefore I don't such 'fixation' can
easily be removed.
Charles