Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20170731055458/@comment-32712012-20170731063944

I think that it would be useful having standards-defying articles removed, but having old articles removed purely because they are old seems like it might be a problem. If new users want to see quality, removing old, high-quality articles might reduce the likelihood that new users will find high-quality articles and join the wiki due to its overall high quality.

As a side note, everything really inspirational that made me want to join the wiki has been edited in the last six weeks. I wonder if older articles generally tend to be lower quality?

At any rate, no matter how we get there, what I personally would like to see on the wiki is to have the average article that one randomly stumbles across be a moderately good article. What I don't want is to make the rare good article even rarer and make the bit of inspiration that gets someone new to join the wiki not find the potential new user before the potential new user's patience runs out and they leave. What I'm afraid of here is that archiving old and good articles (if any exist) along with the bad articles will make good articles rarer.