I do think that kind of degradation happens over time, and not just because a FA made the front-page. So, I would favor locking a FA on the front page for 24 hours, FWIW. So that's my position on dealing with FAs... just lock 'em for awhile.
Obviously I agree that standards have risen over time -- if I look back at articles I created in 2006-7 when I first got involved, I can see why some might recommend them for deletion now (although they did persist and were improved thereafter). I'm not completely sure where SC was going with his observation about "Destructionism" -- I took it as a clever play on "Deletionism" and all the other -isms, to point out a phenomenon he's noticed on at least En-WP, which I recognized immediately. As little as I wish to speak for him, nor do I wish to summarize David, but I think he's talking about a different thing, not about FAs, but how quality articles evolve over time, especially as major facts (or received wisdom) changes. In that case, I default to the status quo on en-wp, which I think is better than not, as I'm sure most of us do. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 7 August 2010 01:45, William Beutler <williambeut...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Certainly, it still describes a real phenomenon: articles that attain > > Featured or Good status, and then have those statuses (statii?) revoked > as > > they degrade. It happens, all right. > > Does it happen very often? Most revocations are due to us raising the > standards we require rather than due to articles deteriorating. If an > article has deteriorated to the point where it isn't worthy of FA any > more then wouldn't it be better just revert to the last FA worthy > version? If the FA criteria are such that there are edits that we > don't want to revert but that make an article no longer worthy of FA, > then we need to change the FA criteria (since they don't fit with our > actual views on what makes an article better or worse). > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
