User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-1510118-20100928233408/@comment-1340045-20100928234437

@Darth

That's only if new users like the new skin too. They want information on crap, not to be able to show the whole world what a piece of work that Article X is. So, they're trading most old and plenty of new users in exchange for higher salaries.

@Peteparker

Yup yup. There's another problem. Mass deletions could always work. :P