Its not a counterpoint. Unless you're trying to pass off that new editor intimidation is caused by too many articles.
Heres a tip: I'm not an editor anymore and it didn't have anything to do with intimidation from the size of wikipeida, it had to do with intimidation with the huge stack of wikipieda policies I was going to have to master to try and navigate around the busybodies running the place just to fix up some articles.
Fine, jeez. I should have found a better quote, maybe. I spent 10 seconds grabbing a quote from an article written two weeks ago about this subject, because I think it's related. And it's NOT the concrete number of articles, it's about encouraging more and different types of contributors besides the policy lawyers. I was TRYING to say the same thing you are saying, and all the rest of this just shows I have a lot to learn about the internals of wikipedia (I know nothing about how they work, really)
Heres a tip: I'm not an editor anymore and it didn't have anything to do with intimidation from the size of wikipeida, it had to do with intimidation with the huge stack of wikipieda policies I was going to have to master to try and navigate around the busybodies running the place just to fix up some articles.