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