[Wikipedia-l] school articles : enough

[David Gerard]

On 29/01/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> What can we really do to contact the nebulous "community", though?
> David and I and others have been bitching and moaning about this at
> the slightest provocation for six months, but the project is big and
> you can only chat to so many people. Short of putting out quarterly
> Signpost announcements saying "The following seven areas of coverage
> are the ones that piss our readers off the most. Please make them less
> crap, we'd all live happier lives", I'm not sure we can easily do much
> about it.


A weekly OTRS report in the Signpost would be a really good idea,
actually, and would probably help a lot.


> A common but less worrying issue is a simple lack of context and scale
> - many of these articles are seized by one enterprising student or
> another to write about the school as they see it; these usually aren't
> *so* bad, but they tend to have a very blurred line as to what is and
> isn't appropriate material, which then leads into articles that the
> school is understandably annoyed by the existence of simply because,
> well, they're linked with this amateurish, hit-and-miss, erratically
> accurate and conceptually blinkered article. (These are often the
> hardest to deal with, in many ways)


The main problem with our school articles is that they're largely
crap, and therefore "non-notable" has been used as the excuse to
delete them.


- d.