[WikiEN-l] Year articles - en: versus de:

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:03:49 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>What are the odds that if anybody tried this on :en: the resulting articles
>would be on AFD in a heartbeat as "listcruft"?

To imbue that comment with a seriousness which was probably not meant:
very low.  There is substantial encyclopaedic content.

What you *would* probably find is that every year since 199x would be
dominated by "foo Pokemon deck released" with a three paragraph
summary, "foo game released for bar console" with nine paragraphs,
"foo webforum launched" with 28 paragraphs... and somewhere buried at
the bottom in about eight words the fact that the Nobel Prize for
Medicine was awarded to a man who discovered a cure for cancer and the
common cold, over which there would be an edit war regarding the
precise semantics of the words "cure", "common", "cold" and quite
likely "who" ;-)
Guy (JzG)
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