I don't see how giving more people the ability to create articles reduces the amount of crap articles. If more people are given the right to create articles, the amount of crap in the NewPages backlog will inevitably increase, giving patrollers more to sort through. Additionally, the amount of good articles will increase, which means the patrollers will have even more to sort through. I make these assertions under the assumption that you will not be able to convince the community to remove article creation from new editors (was that indeed your suggestion at question 3, bullet 1?). —  ( talk • contribs • e-mail )