Just sent.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Date: 25-Jul-2006 18:35 Subject: Wikipedia, Scotland and semi-protected articles To: Murdo Macleod

I just remembered the article on Jordanhill Railway Station in Glasgow - an utterly unremarkable train platform in suburban Glasgow, but someone wrote an article about it that just happened to be the one millionth article in the English Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station

If you look at the original version -

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jordanhill_railway_station&old...

- you can see just how much detail can be written about something when it comes to everyone's attention ;-)

That article was semi-protected for a while, around March 2-3, because of the incredible numbers of people coming to see article 1,000,000 and of course it got some vandalism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Jordanhill_ra...

It was semiprotected for the usual reason, i.e. lots of attention leading to people putting rubbish in. It was unprotected as soon as was feasible.

I don't know if that's contentious enough, but it is a recent example of local interest :-)

- thanks, David.