[WikiEN-l] Thousands of *awful* articles on websites

Bogdan Giusca liste at dapyx.com
Wed Jan 3 16:39:07 UTC 2007


Wikipedia has way too many articles on websites, webcomics and
other types of internet content -- likely thousands.

The problem is that around 95% of those articles are not sourced (or
they are sourced from forum and blog posts) and at least 70% won't be
able to be sourced because they were never mentioned in the mainstream
press -- and probably very few were mentioned in books and journals.

I deleted about 50 of them, which looked totally non-notable, but if I
had to apply the rules, at least 80% would have to be deleted for
lacking notability claims.

Can anyone suggest any solution to this?






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