Kirill Lokshin wrote:
The solution is pretty obvious, then: redirect (possibly after merging any useful information) the crap articles with abandon. I'm surprised, for instance, that we don't simply redirect each vanity band entry to [[Garage band]]; most of the authors won't be back to check, I suspect.
Shhh! Don't mention that on a public mailing list!!
:-)
But seriously, for the 3/4 of articles not watched by anybody, you've pretty much got a free hand. Prune the unverifiable ramblings out, you'll likely only end up with two lines of factual material; add to [[Garage bands in Iowa]] or whatever, and you're done.
I used to do this kind of thing quite a lot back when I reviewed new articles; often felt like a race to handle them usefully before AfD got to them and made a simple task into a fight. Nearly all of them are still redirects, a year or more later.
Stan