Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2018-02-20/Humour

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DataflowBot's keeper here. Don't know why ORES is scoring Jimmy Connors as a stub. --Bamyers99 (talk) 18:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What exactly is this list? You introduction doesn't really explain much of anything that I can figure out. Is this the most-viewed stubs? Then why call it humor and why mock the subject of most of the articles? This seems to be one of the best ways to identify articles needing improvement. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 19:24, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That is so nice of you to say. Thank you! EllenCT (talk) 06:57, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Let me spell it out for you:

Bots do funny things

I can't explain much of what I found either, that is the point

Yes, these are the most viewed stubs

I don't do 'mocking' and you've misinterpreted what is written

I might be the only editor on WP who thinks I might be funny. Someone called me silly today and that is a compliment.

Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 23:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Barb, I think you're hilarious, but not funny in other ways. EllenCT (talk) 06:57, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you? Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉

Very welcome; thank you for noticing. We also worked on standard scores for WP:MOSTEDITED. EllenCT (talk) 17:04, 22 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I might help out with America's Next Top Model (cycle 24) since those editors keep deleting me from the article. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 11:27, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Where is our list of role models? Who do you know who can help me keep an eye on a fork of Quarry query 1337? EllenCT (talk) 20:21, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It might be less obvious from the link in the column now that a new report came out, but it is exactly the machine-generated list of popular low-quality articles from 6 February. Plus humorous commentary. We at the Signpost staff do not have a sense of humor that we are aware of, but there are about 2 ~~some~~ people think Barbara does. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

More like 2^3 people, at least who I know. It could easily be in ten digits. EllenCT (talk) 04:42, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That list of popular low-quality articles is interesting. Turns out the most popular is XVideos, a pornography site (surprise!). I also noticed 2018 German Masters on the list but, sadly, that turns out not to be a pornographic site. E Eng 04:58, 25 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

For the next Signpost, you should do a collaboration with EEng.

–FlyingAce^✈hello 15:52, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he has been asked (begged) by me to contribute. I may just create a humour article as a redirect to his talkpage. Barbara ✐ ✉ 10:04, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You want me to do a collaboration with EEng? E Eng 16:12, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, he wants you to do a collaboration with EEng. E Eng 23:43, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Is he easy to work with? E Eng 01:08, 9 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Probably not. Barbara ✐ ✉ 00:05, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, who made the table sortable? Barbara ✐ ✉ 08:39, 9 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]