More Words, Deeper Hole

Oh, dear Lord, that's the subject of some of our most intense internal disagreements. There are standards of notability, which like most standards are subject to interpretation; and there are always those who want to push the envelope one way or the other. I am of the evil tribe termed "deletionists" who think there's too much crap about recent nonsense; and believes in fewer but finer articles; ideally, reducing the total number of articles in the English-language Wikipedia from 2.7 million to 2 million or fewer.

The other tendency, of course, is referred to as "inclusionists." I don't know of any reliable indicator to predict which way any given person will lean, aside from a tendency for the youngest editors to think that any content that was on television after they were three is central to the knowledgebase of humanity.