QUOTE(Rhindle @ Wed 23rd November 2011, 3:37pm)
The thing is how long can an FA keep it's status without eroding? Subtle vandals can just water down that featured article and it can ultimately end up total crap because "anyone can edit." Sure, there are those who protect articles but how many years can you keep that up? If you can just say once an article reaches FA status it should be locked up and just be updated when something new comes up. However, the culture over there will never allow it.
Good point. Amandajm came to To Autumn and pretty much destroyed it by introducing plagiarism, altering text to say the opposite of the sources, etc. Most people refused to care even when there was lots of proof to that effect. Ceoil even stuck up for her and tried to defend her actions even though all evidence was that the user had a long history of plagiarizing. Much of the plagiarism and other problems is still in the page, unfortunately.
Chrisoff - going off of views, here are mine (30 day period per the stat links):
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Samuel Johnson 41,600
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Ode on a Grecian Urn - 15,404
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To Autumn - 9,848
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The Lucy poems - 4,889
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The Drapier's Letters - 1,175
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Ode on Indolence - 1,049
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The Author's Farce - 636
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Early life of Samuel Johnson - 535
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Christopher Smart's asylum confinement - 507
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Nicolo Giraud - 469
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The Covent-Garden Journal - 369
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