User:Randwicked/random
Aug 2006 new article survey
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Something a little different! Now I will review the first 20 articles to appear on the Special:Newpages list, clicked at about 6 pm AEST. The colours after the entry indicate whether they are 'RED' or 'BLUE' users, or whether or not they have a user page (a rough indicator of noobishness).
- Mehrdad Azimi Deleted. I clicked on it a moment ago though and it was about a 13 year old boy. RED
- Unspeakables set of characters in Harry Potter. Unwikified, poor punctuation. RED
- Constitutional documents Legal stub. Wikified, with footnotes. Might have some geographical bias. BLUE
- Suk tribe Note on usage of a name for a tribe. Unwikified. BLUE
- Raikoke Russian island. Wikified stub. BLUE
- Lisa Lassek Television editor. Wikified stub. BLUE
- Julie Sudiro Malaysian singer. Wikified stub, some problems with English. RED
- Authorised capital Stubby legal definition from same creator as Constitutional documents. BLUE
- Floyd, Texas. Tiny Texan community. So small it was missed by Rambot, apparently. Stub. BLUE
- Two Gentleman Of Verona Stubbity stubbity stub, since redirected to the actual title of the Shakespeare play. RED
- Jason Thomas 9/11 bit player. Partially wikified, mad at his innacurate portrayal in some movie that hasn't even been released yet. RED
- Canadian-Saudi relations self explanatory stub. If there's 300 countries in the world, how many articles like this will we end up with? BLUE
- Shiashkotan another Russian island by creator of Raikoke. BLUE
- Poom King Deleted. RED
- Laughing Wild Stubby play, by creator of Shakespeare mistitle. RED
- Società Italiana di Musica Moderna Stub on Italian music society. Wikified. BLUE
- Boredonline Internet forum with 2300 members. Unwikified. RED
- Merit, Texas Another small Texan town by same creator as Floyd, Texas. BLUE
- Rosyface shiner Species of fish in the standard format. RED
- Mohamed Benboubker Deleted. Created by user with same name. RED
Mar 2006 random article survey
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30 this time.
| Eeny Meeny Miney Moe, childrens' verse. Stubby, tagged as cleanup. |
| Luna: A Novel, French novel. Stubby. |
| Green Party (disambiguation), disambiguation page. Probably incomplete. |
| Dunlap, Indiana, Rambot non-article. |
| Sorgun, Turkish district. Minimal stub. |
| Highland Distillers, Scotch distillery. Stubby with no international context. |
| Danny Lux, American composer. Stub. |
| Until Tomorrow, Australian TV program. Stub. |
| Spooky, Band. Stub, with irrelevant cruft insertion "Spooky Miller the show cat" at the end. |
| McFatter Vocational/Technical Center, high school. Substub, not wikified. |
| Dog River, disambiguation page. |
| 1938 European Championship, disambiguation page. |
| Names of the demons, deals with Christian demons. Scholarly, but not quite encyclopedic in tone. |
| Thomas Dennis Company LLC, bus company. Substub. |
| Three Kings (disambiguation), disambiguation page. |
| Math for America, Two-year-old NPO. Short. |
| OCGA, disambiguation page. |
| John Semer Farnsworth, American spy. Good length but no references. |
| Cache Creek, Kern County, California, Geographical stub. At least it's not Rambot. |
| Davidsville, Pennsylvania, Rambot non-article. |
| Marsh Wren, bird species. Where do these all come from? Concise, no references. |
| Theudebald, early Frankish king. Short. |
| Ratdog, band. Short. |
| Petar Erdödy, 16th century Croatian figure. Stub. |
| Coordination game, Game theory article. Decent. |
| Unión Argentina de Rugby, sport administrative body. Short. |
| Hitohiro Saito, Aikido master. Okay, no references. |
| Ahmade Bate, Kurdish poet. Stub, but has references. |
| The Magic Box (film), British film. Substub with hardly any content. |
| Clarion call, mostly a dicdef. Marked as wikify and no categories. |
Breakdown: oh dear.
| 27% Sports/entertainment/culture/cruft (let's not kid ourselves) |
| 20% Disambiguations, definitions |
| 20% Politics/humanities/organizations |
| 13% Biographies |
| 13% Geographical places |
| 7% Science |
No improvement since last time. In fact it appears to have gotten worse, with more and poorer stubs. This is hardly scientific though.
Jan 2006 random article survey
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Twenty random articles accessed and described.
| Chestnut Street Incident, a 1970s rock album. |
| Bridge World Standard, card game rules set. |
| Johnstown (town), New York, rambot article with minimal info. |
| Legacy support, computing term stub. |
| Mohammed Ragab Ahmad, African politician. Minimal stub. |
| Hipot, electricity term stub |
| Rune poem, long but messy language article |
| Environmentalist Agrarian Party, Albanian political party |
| Worshipful Company of Founders, British foundation. Short. |
| Hugh Nibley, a famous Mormon, decent length. |
| Christian Science Board of Directors, part of a religious organisation. |
| Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete |
| Haslet, short English cooking stub |
| Karolyne Smith, prominent internet idiot. |
| John Boydell, English historical figure. |
| New Rally-X, Video game. Short. |
| Henry Spelman, English historical figure stub. |
| Knox County, Nebraska, rambot article with no content at all. |
| Cicia, Fijian island stub. |
| Mary Malone, fantasy novel character. |
Breakdown:
| 30% Biographies |
| 25% Sports/entertainment/culture/cruft (let's not kid ourselves) |
| 20% Politics/humanities/organizations |
| 15% Geographical places |
| 10% Technology |
Aug 2005 random article survey
[edit]- Pope Honorius IV
- IV
- 1956 in Ireland
- Paul Triquet
- Vasil Mzhavanadze
- Masonville
- Henry Thomas Buckle
- Ado Ekiti
- Transliterating cuneiform languages
- High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
- Charles Orville Whitley
- All That Heaven Allows
- South African Airways
- Monolayer
- Pietro Ubaldi (aieee!!)
- Kansas City Royals roster
- Columbia River Treaty
- Gabrielle-Ann Reid
- Mount Diablo buckwheat
- ISIS (satellite)
None of these articles were about anime characters. I'm not sure of the significance of this.