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

[The Cunctator]

On 1/3/07, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>
> 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?


Don't be such a deletion nazi.