User:Interchangeable/A Point on Featured Articles

This is a featured article. It has excellent, comprehensive coverage of its topic, and is well-referenced.

However, WP:FA currently says: "There are 3,374 featured articles out of 3,728,558 articles on the English Wikipedia. Thus, about one in 1,100 articles is listed here." So here are 1,109 x's. These articles are good articles, a-class articles, stubs, or whatever horrible stuff lurks in the gutters of Wikipedia. Some are alright. Others are completely falsified or up for deletion. They just aren't our best.

Think about that. Of those, nearly all of them are the junk stubs you see when you click "Random Article". This is simply unacceptable. We need to focus on quality, not quantity - we are long past the point where quantity is best. Interchangeable