Dan01 - 1:09 am on Aug 13, 2012 (gmt 0)

I believe it all depends on how your page stats compare to your competitors.

I agree with that. If the page is ranking way down, especially on a long-tail SERP, then perhaps the article should go.

In some cases a page can be improved. In our case, we don't have time to improve 14K pages, so deleting poor performers is quicker.