WikiEN-l October 2005

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Re: Taking your eyes off the ball
by Ryan W. (Merovingian) 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I couldn't have said it better myself. I think by now that some series of articles should be updated together so that they are all featured. For example: nations of the world, US presidents, British monarchs, etc. There's plenty of information that we have, and plenty that we've overlooked. Coordinated efforts to bring articles up to featured status need emphasis. The Collaborations of the Week are a good start, but the track record of past CotW's is poor. --Ryan > From: Mark Pellegrini <mapellegrini(a)comcast.net> > Subject: [WikiEN-l] Taking your eyes off the ball > > I'm going to grouse a bit. > > I think far, far too much attention gets paid to the worst articles on > Wikipedia - the studs, the vanity articles, the stuff of debatable > notability (schools!!) while not nearly enough effort goes into making > crappy articles into good ones. > > People on AFD love to argue about the crappiest articles. (It also tends > to spill over to this mailing list) On the other side of the spectrum, > the percentage of featured articles (number of featured articles / total > number of articles) has been rapidly declining since March. > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_statistics). > And yet no one seems care. Sometime this month, percentage of featured > articles will drop below 0.1% -- less than 1 article in 1000 being a > featured article. > > So while our article count is exploding [due to a massive influx of > less-than-steller new articles.... think - traffic circles] and while > the number of contributors has been steadily increasing, the number of > new featured articles being produced has been a fairly steady 30-40 per > month. > > Am I the only one who thinks we have our priorities out of order? We are > we spending so much energy arguing about the horrible stuff that (for > all intents) will never be seen or noticed when our important articles > (think - Michael Brown, Tom DeLay, John Roberts) are, well, not very good? > > -Mark "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy Wales, July 2004 -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Taking your eyes off the ball
by Mark Pellegrini 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I'm going to grouse a bit. I think far, far too much attention gets paid to the worst articles on Wikipedia - the studs, the vanity articles, the stuff of debatable notability (schools!!) while not nearly enough effort goes into making crappy articles into good ones. People on AFD love to argue about the crappiest articles. (It also tends to spill over to this mailing list) On the other side of the spectrum, the percentage of featured articles (number of featured articles / total number of articles) has been rapidly declining since March. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_statistics). And yet no one seems care. Sometime this month, percentage of featured articles will drop below 0.1% -- less than 1 article in 1000 being a featured article. So while our article count is exploding [due to a massive influx of less-than-steller new articles.... think - traffic circles] and while the number of contributors has been steadily increasing, the number of new featured articles being produced has been a fairly steady 30-40 per month. Am I the only one who thinks we have our priorities out of order? We are we spending so much energy arguing about the horrible stuff that (for all intents) will never be seen or noticed when our important articles (think - Michael Brown, Tom DeLay, John Roberts) are, well, not very good? -Mark

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Vfd nominations
by David Gerard 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

SPUI wrote: >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/White_Horse_Circle >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SPUI#page_recreation >Fvw just speedy deleted the redirect I made, claiming it was a recreation. I just recreated it, referring him here. Frank? - d.

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Crap vfd nominations
by SPUI 01 Oct '05

01 Oct '05

I have speedy kept the following vfd nominations, and been threatened with a block: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Freehold_Circle "Here is another nn traffic circle. Roadcruft. Delete --JAranda | yeah 02:40, 28 September 2005 (UTC)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Laurelton_Circ… "I don't normally get into the road wars on AfD, but this is a former traffic circle, now converted to a traffic light. Its notability derives from the notability of the history of the traffic light. Delete. Chick Bowen 21:36, 26 September 2005 (UTC)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Flemington_Cir… "This is one of three traffic circles in Flemington, New Jersey, a village of 4000 people. Pilatus 18:34, 29 September 2005 (UTC)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/White_Horse_Ci… "Oh cmon its a traffic circle nn Delete --Aranda56 01:26, 22 September 2005 (UTC)" What the fuck is with people?

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Overzealous Willy on Wheels patrollers
by Phroziac 30 Sep '05

30 Sep '05

Hey, the willy patrollers really should lighten it up a little. I've been seeing people with Willy or wheels in there name get blocked for being WoW. I think that's insane. Anyway, point is, a user with the name "kswheels" got blocked mistakenly, and I unblocked him/her, after they requested on IRC. If you guys could remember this is a real user and don't block them for this, then that would be great. I presume they are at a risk of being blocked again until they make a few good edits. I did suggest they might want to change their username, and since they only have 0 edits, that won't be a problem with the bureaucratness disabled... :)

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