User:Sungodtemple/Broad Topic Theory

The Broad Topic Theory states that:

Take care when reading broader articles; they generally have less citations.

Implications
This is why most vital-1 articles are B or C class. Earth is a major exception, and this is mainly because most of the article is... statistics! Statistics are the easiest thing to cite; just look at a reliable source and see if they mention it. That simple. Other articles like Mathematics are so broad that even if you knew where to start and actually wrote the article with sections, it would be hard to cite because you can't go into much detail.

It is near impossible to make broad topic articles featured due to WP:DUEWEIGHT/WP:UNDUEWEIGHT, WP:REFERENCES, and WP:ARTICLESIZE.

As of March 21:
 * Vital-1: 1 featured, 1 good (20%)
 * Vital-2: 5 featured, 11 good (16%)
 * Vital-3: 82 featured, 125 good, 2 A (21%)
 * Vital-4: 392 featured, 609 good, 8 A (10%)
 * Vital-5: 702 featured, 1410 good, 28 A (4%)

So what should you do? Skip the big topics, because they're just too hard. Work on the smaller topic ones.

This is quite the minority viewpoint. You may not want to listen to me...