I’m reading through the names of the FA’s on Wikipedia.
It looks as though the FA’s are heavily represented by highly regional events like hurricanes, highly local historical places, and very specific things. I’d like to hazard a guess that at least half of all FA’s are written by people with a close personal connection or hobby with the subject.
The mathematics section is looking pretty empty, as is the computing section. Maybe they’d like another article for those?
Note that those are also highly delineated and uncontroversial topics, which means that they can pass FAs easily. FA isn’t so much about ‘is this a great article?’ but ‘can we find any excuse to not make this an FA?’; hence, crabbed uninteresting topics. Hurricanes aren’t very controversial.
I’m reading through the names of the FA’s on Wikipedia.
It looks as though the FA’s are heavily represented by highly regional events like hurricanes, highly local historical places, and very specific things. I’d like to hazard a guess that at least half of all FA’s are written by people with a close personal connection or hobby with the subject.
The mathematics section is looking pretty empty, as is the computing section. Maybe they’d like another article for those?
Note that those are also highly delineated and uncontroversial topics, which means that they can pass FAs easily. FA isn’t so much about ‘is this a great article?’ but ‘can we find any excuse to not make this an FA?’; hence, crabbed uninteresting topics. Hurricanes aren’t very controversial.
So articles on those subjects aren’t especially good?
They’re good in a very stereotypical, narrow, uncontroversial, lowest-common-denominator sort of way.