[WikiEN-l] The percentage of English Wikipedia articles about living people over time.

[David Goodman]

Articles that have been edited by Delirium are, as one would expect,
adequate in content and references.  Not everyone who translates an
article is that careful.

On 10/18/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/17/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> > David Goodman wrote:
> > > The question is how much of an article is acceptable. A stub together
> > > with a bibliographic reference can be written for anyone who appears
> > > in a print reference book--if the position or accomplishment seems
> > > notable.   deWP has many articles of this sort, but when they are
> > > translated into enWP, they are generally deleted very quickly.
> >
> > I haven't had that problem myself; what sorts of articles are getting
> > deleted? I've translated quite a few very short articles on obscure
> > 19th-century Germans from the German Wikipedia to English and I'd be
> > surprised if anyone proposed deleting any of them, even if many consist
> > of a few sentences of a stub and a reference or two.
>
> While I can't say I'd be surprised if somebody made a systematic
> effort to delete your work (without giving a damn what exists on other
> projects), I dispute the notion that a subject can possibly deserve an
> article in one language, but not in another. I thought the mythical
> goal state was for every "valid topic" to have a corresponding article
> in every language.
>
> —C.W.
>
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David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.