Problematic articles
Fragment of a discussion from Talk:Task force/Wikipedia Quality
Oh, that makes sense. Once you have the baseline, there would definitely be additional work to be done. If the baseline is as comprehensive as an expanded dictionary definition, the next step would be finding the research to flesh it out.
Evaluating the baseline is still the challenge though. Even the featured article process takes literally weeks, often a month or more. It's easy to see that this will make it impossible to evaluate more than a few dozen articles per year, in a pool of millions. That's just as bad as coming up with a baseline quality standard that can just be stamped on by any passerby who likes the article.