User blog comment:Oshawott3/Zinc's 1000th-Edit Blog/@comment-3530543-20110815182519/@comment-1874924-20110816040058

Time was when most Featured User (nee Featured Author) winners had 2000 edits or more. When I was Featured back in June 2010, I was only the second person to win with fewer than 1000 edits, and I had 998. Now that most of the best-known users have already been Featured, though, sub-1000 winners are becoming more common.