On 15.12.2013 13:24, Laura Hale wrote:
The issue of volume of citations can also be subject specific. An
article about Sudan women's national football team, which is a Good
Article, has 26 total citations. Topically, this makes a lot of sense.
Sioma, an article about a town in Zambia, has 23 citations and is a
Start. I would expect an article about a town to potentially have more
sources. There more well known a topic is, the more page views, it
seems a sliding scale for sources should be used if trying to assess
relative quality.
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I just started to look into Zambia, seems to be a horrible mess. The
subdivisions were changed in 2011 and again in 2013, this until
yesterday was not reflected in the articles. There are very little
sources available, I had to spend a lot of time yesterday understanding
which districts now belong to which province. I also created a missing
article on a province (first level of the administrative subdivision) -
I thought all such articles were done by 2004. I will clean up at least
all articles on Zambian subdivisions, but it can very well take several
weeks. Welcome to the Global South.
Cheers
Yaroslav