40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists

Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by frik on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:49PM (#13978822)

Sadly it's true. Please allow stub articles and trivia sections. Or was the ban of trivia section a push for Wikia of the Wikipedia founder!? So many great articles eg about fictional characters of movies, etc got deleted. I mean it's fine to remove marketing spam from companies, but it's not like insightful articles cost that much storage space, so why delete articles?

The English language version is still good to okayish. But the German language version is completely infested by deletionits. So many good articles vanished, so many photos and pictures got deleted - it's very strange that German version has such a different guidelines/standard. de.Wikipedia sincerely needs a review from international bodies.

The German Wikipedia org also maintains the toolsserver which is used for mapping and things like that for all language versions. The WikiData project also is from German branch.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by TillE on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:02PM (#13978975)

Please no trivia sections. There's something incredibly embarrassing about having a short article on some fairly important subject, followed by a huge list of every time that subject was mentioned on any obscure TV show.

Culturally significant references, yes. Trivia? Don't crap up the main article with that sort of thing. An article about Person A should be about Person A; nobody cares about a song they were mentioned in 100 years after they died.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:08PM (#13979044)

The Oxford English Dictionary (sample: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663) weeps. There's a lot of value to some in listing references to a topic.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:17PM (#13979146)

There's a difference between listing three to five examples of a given usage, to demonstrate that it occurs in the wild, and exhaustively cataloging every single time a thing has been mentioned by anyone.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by kstrauser on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:20PM (#13979183)

Certainly, but what's the cutoff? Maybe that should be a policy ("three to five inbound references are acceptable; more are not") so there's consistency.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by basch on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @11:41AM (#13987342)

why do you care? why cant the information exist, maybe be hidden by default, and shown after clicking an expand button.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by jpalomaki on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:47PM (#13979449)

Embarrassing for who?

I don't see problem with this kind of extra material if it's clearly marked and can be easily ignored.

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Re:40% of Wikipedia is under threat from deletionists by slouch on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:21PM (#13979190)

The spam is in the external links sections of articles that aren't under threat of deletion. For example, about half the links on the Lemon Law article point to pages that are essentially lawyer lead funnels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law

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