On 9/30/05, Mark Pellegrini mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
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.
-Mark
I agree with this. And so does MacGyverMagic. So in the interests of 1) improving Wikipedia, 2) good clean fun, and 3) cutthroat competition....
Wikipedia:Article rescue contest -- put your money where your mouth is, and improve something that survived AfD on the idea that it could be a good encyclopedic article if only it were cleaned up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_rescue_contest
...because too many articles are put on AfD, kept, and then never touched again after their survival.
(If this sounds familiar, maybe it should; it was proposed once before but never followed up on, but now we put an actual date in the rules, so it's official. And yes, of course it was inspired by Danny's contest.)
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]]
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