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==What to do with the rest of the WikiProjects?==
This question has, to this point, not yet been answered. My best answers, although they are not clearly the best answers, would be that, to a degree, these particular "ancillary" projects, considering that they are, in effect, being created on the basis of their being able to provide either greater focus or more concentrated effort than the larger "topical" etc. projects, should be held to living up to that goal. If they should become inactive or, after a considerable period of time, fail to bring any obvious improvement to the articles they seek to deal with, they can become eligible for deletion.
Several of these projects have already been accused of "crufting" wikipedia with content which is, at best, dubiously qualified for inclusion. If it should become apparent that they are consistently contributing content which does not merit inclusion, or are not themselves contributing at all, then there would be no particularly reason for those projects to be kept, and they could be made at least eligible for deletion. Also, considering that they are, in a sense, "redundant" projects, I think it would make sense that their placement of a banner on a talk page is a de facto commitment to improve the attached article. So, if the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject 24]] were to place their banner on the [[Kiefer Sutherland]] page, it would indicate a real commitment from that group to improve and maintain the article according to wikipedia's standards. Should they fail to do so, then that could be seen as being a "strike" against the project, and potentially either the banner or the project itself could be removed.
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