--- SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, The Cunctator wrote:
On 12/5/05, Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
For the record, I very strongly support this. This is due to the fact that almost all, not just most, new pages created by anons on the English Wikipedia are borderline to complete crap.
Do we have stats on that?
New, usable articles created by anons accounted for around 40% of all new articles. This ignores speedied articles, etc which might inflate the figure in favor of anon-creation.
Lots of them need wikification and start life as stubs; I wouldn't call that "crap".
When I used to work new page patrol I found that most of all IP-created articles were deleted or listed for deletion/copyvio. I would call those crap. Most of the remaining ones had significant clean-up issues that needed to be fixed and/or were nearly useless stubs. I would call those borderline cases since they add little in comparison to the increased maintenance burden on the community. Most of total + most of remaining = almost all in my book
-- mav
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