A good portion of the articles about India are empty articles or have only a map or flag. They should probably be deleted. They were created by a user whose sole aim was to increase the number of languages for that article.
True Jesus Church has been the subject of similar efforts by an individual, but it's not quite as bad (no empty pages and the like), but there are a few of them that are just written in English with a "request to be translated".
Linking to such non-articles is not constructive.
Mark
On 28/11/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
And here the pages that, as far as I could see, got the most extra interwiki links during these last two months. Only pages that had 1 or more interwiki links last time have been included, though. Also, where I found that there was a different page on that title 2 months ago, pages have been removed. A remark on the cause of the growth has been given, where I could discern it.
- India +82 to 233
- 2006 +57 to 150
- Informatics +41 to 42 (other languages used to link to [[computer
science]]) 4. Musa (genus) +38 to 45 (got a load of links that are also linked from [[banana]]) 5. Persian Empire +31 to 35 (was in a vandalised state 2 months ago) 6. Octave Mirbeau +31 to 46 (someone seems to have translated a stub into many languages) 7. Ban Ki-moon +30 to 35 (next secretary-general of the UN) 8. Frankfurt +30 to 53 9. Tortoise +28 to 39 (now linked to many languages that have a single article for turtles and tortoises) 10. 2005 +28 to 122 11. Advertising +27 to 29 12. September +27 to 92 13. Muhammad Yunus +25 to 33 (won the Nobel Peace Prize) 14. Korn +25 to 49 (has a new album?) 15. Hesse +25 to 65 16. Adam's Rib +24 to 26 (incorrectly linked to Adam in several languages - reverted) 17. Orhan Pamuk +24 to 47 (won the Nobel Prize for Literature) 18. Freedom of speech (international) +23 to 24 (linked to pages that are also linked from Freedom of speech) 19. Tributary +23 to 24 20. Republic of China +23 to 65 21. Wakker Prize +22 to 25 (mistake: had included Category:Prizes rather than been put in it) 22. Toxicity +22 to 30 (has been linked to pages on [[poison]] instead. I think the old links were better) 23. Game Boy +21 to 22 24. Anna Politkovskaya +21 to 28 (was murdered) 25. Karlstad Municipality +21 to 31 26. Bhopal (state) +19 to 20 27. Olimpia +18 to 19 (disamb; now linked to disambiguation pages Olympia as well as Olimpia) 28. Edmund Phelps +18 to 21 (Nobel Prize winner in economics) 29. Ségolène Royal +18 to 32 (French socialist presidential election candidate) 30. Battle of the Frontiers +17 to 18 (incorrectly linked to Battle of Jutland; reverted) 31. Geothermal heating +17 to 18 (linked to geothermal energy/power in many languages)
A few more that got high because of the news: Grameen Bank +17 to 22 (co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize) Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan +16 to 17 (film released internationally) Borat +16 to 23 (lead figure of aformentioned film) Nancy Pelosi +14 to 19 (stays Democratic leader in the House, now majority leader) Daniel Ortega +14 to 25 (winner Nicaragua presidential elections) Surayud Cholanont +12 to 14 (new prime minister of Thailand) September 2006 +12 to 16 (recent month) Pieter Willem Botha +12 to 23 (died) Robert Gates +11 to 12 (U.S. secretary of defense nominee) October 2006 +11 to 13 (recent month)
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