This whole paragraph:

A depressing sign of our times today is the "professional fan fic" where those writers of professional quality who would have been acceptable to publishers of 20, 30, 40 or more years ago, are no longer publishable due to the negative changes in the quality sought by today's publishing houses. There's something wrong in reading a piece of "fan fiction" and its writing is superior to the typical slop published by the large publishing house or in a modern television script. The modern publishing house seeks material that is "risk-free" and this is interpreted to be that which appeals to "the lowest-common denominator." As such, much of the material published (and in today's TV for that matter) is written to a low standard that is as low or even lower than that of typical fan fiction of the 1970s and 1980s. Requirements for grade school-level grammar and syntax are not uncommon and the writers of the past would be unwelcome by today's publishing houses. "Formula books" with interchangeable plots, situations and characters became common in the 1990s, leading many readers to cease reading fiction and science fiction. It should not be surprising that today's professional-level writing is now found in other places than today's mass-marketed books (and TV). A number of publishers, in desperation to boost sales, have resorted to importing those books that sold in Britain and to reprinting books that have been out of print for two, three or four decades that had sold well in their time.

I mostly agree with it, but really, I don't think it belongs in the intro section to this page. It's a discussion of professional publishing, not of fanfic per se. Should it be deleted?

Scrap it. It's just unnecessary soapboxing, anyway.