> I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about. Like everything on Wikipedia the answer is some messy mixture of formal and informal processes

> I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about. Like everything on Wikipedia the answer is some messy mixture of formal and informal processes, automation, and 8.2 kilotons of thinking meat ... which often gets it wrong but gets it right often enough to produce something truly great. I haven't been involved in wikipedia gnoming for quite a while but I think: I think in practice what happens is that various editors who care about such things go around proposing stubs for deletion based on whatever criteria they think makes sense, and then other people sometimes oppose those proposed deletions (or moves to draftspace) with arguments and improving edits. So the criteria essentially is a measure of literal care put in by editors to preserve the article.