Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Irrelevant/reply (7)

So out of the 3 million+ articles on en.wiki, Justin Bieber, George W. Bush and maybe 100 other high traffic articles could be considered "1 offs" because their survey results will be skewed by fanboys/haters. That is still an infinitesimally small fraction and even if these are high traffic articles, that doesn't diminish the potential usefulness that this tool can offer to the project across the board.

The editors who watch Bieber and GWB will not be making significant changes to those articles based on the AFT tool. However, the editors to articles like the 1984 Summer Olympics, Prince Edward Island, Piston valve, Aging of wine, Royal Scottish Academy, Bamboo, Australopithecus etc might be inclined to look more closely at those articles if they start receiving a pattern of low ratings in comparison to similar articles.

I think this is a key point that critics are missing when they try to bring up "crap" ratings on articles like Bieber and GWB. Articles like that make up a very, very small percentage of Wikipedia and they should not be held as a benchmark for how new tools or ideas are implemented on the project.