The article should be re-written to include a WORLD-WIDE view, or it should be de-listed as a featured article.
Furthermore, the process of an information object’s IQ change could be passive or indirect, caused by changes in the underlying entity and context—culture, sociotechnical structures, and domain knowledge. In general, these changes were not intended to affect the IQ of the object. In the case of Wikipedia, for instance, these changes could a particular editor leaving Wikipedia or an article’s editorial group, changes in the FA criteria, or removal or modification of the articles that a given article references or is referred to by. The context could also be changed actively to affect the quality of the information object. New sources could be introduced or planted in or the existing ones modified with the intention of supporting or refuting the information presented by the object [8, 10]. A qualified editor(s) could be invited to help with improving the IQ of an article. There could be active or direct quality degradation through malicious
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corruption or removal of the information entity (see Figure 5). Quality degradation actions may not necessarily be malicious, however. We observed in Wikipedia how administrators often had to remove edit access to an article (reduce its accessibility) to protect it from greater quality degradation caused by edit wars or frequent vandalism. Information also could be abridged (reduced in completeness) to meet the needs of certain audiences or uses or, alternatively, the conventions of a certain genre.