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

[Angela]

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

This seems a waste.  Just because something hasn't been written about
by the mainstream press doesn't make it worthless to people reading
Wikipedia.

http://internet.wikia.com/index.php?title=User:Angela&oldid=1943 shows
17 examples of pages you deleted today which I've rescued for the
Internet Wiki, but it's a shame so many hundreds like those are being
deleted every day rather than moved to a more suitable wiki or
rewritten to make them suitable for Wikipedia.

Angela