[WikiEN-l] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: Taking your eyes off the ball

Sun Oct 2 18:32:38 UTC 2005

On 10/2/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/2/05, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This isn't a problem. It's what has made English Wikipedia one of the
> > largest reference works in the English language.
> >
>
> It is a problem becuase you run into the issue of not very good
> articles. Your proposal won't work because only a very small number of
> people want to work on subjects they are not interested in when they
> could work on subjects they are interested in.

We don't want "not very good articles" on the main page. I still don't see
how your observation of people's personal preferences supports your argument
that this is a "problem".

> > Articles on subjects in which nobody shows any interest should probably
> not
> > be on our main page.
>
> Really? Lets look at [[Algerian Civil War]]. Featured article. Look
> how short it's talk page is. Go back to before it was on the main page
> and you will find it was basicaly wirtten by [[User:Mustafaa]]. That
> is how interested people were in the topic.
>
>
If as you claim only one person is interested in it, what's it doing as a
FA?