Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Irrelevant/reply (4)

I agree that any set number of edits is a limited approach. Three edits might result in major changes; thirty edits might be nothing more than 15 pairs of vandalism and reversion. Furthermore, half the ratings might have been made while one of those 15 vandalized versions were up.

I don't agree that the tool is irrelevant to the broad goals of the WMF. I think it may prove to be far more effective at turning readers into editors than anything else we've tried. Passively reading "This page needs to be fixed" has not proven to be very effective. If you start with someone who is already thinking about the article and interacting with the page (by rating it), and then we've already got their attention when we say, "You know, you create an account—you could edit this article—you could try this out", and we've got their focus on the article's strengths and weaknesses.

Might it be irrelevant for experienced editors identifying articles that need work? Quite possibly, but nobody's ever promised that the ratings would be useful for that purpose. In fact, the devs have specifically said that's not a validated use of the tool.