User:JesseW/Tony Sidaway's 10 page test
In order to give this nice example of a Random Page Test a on-wiki home, I'm copying this message by User:Tony Sidaway to this page. If e wishes, he's free to move it to eis userspace, for generally clarity's sake. I have done some minor wikication to it, but otherwise it is unchanged. JesseW, the juggling janitor 07:47, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[WikiEN-l] The deletion paradox
Tony Sidaway email addr elided
Tue Jan 31 10:21:10 UTC 2006
On 1/30/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyway, the vastness of crap on Wikipedia
In order to test the truth of the above assertion, I pressed "random article" ten times and wrote about what I saw.
The results were as I expected. Out of ten articles, not one that I would be completely happy about deleting. They could all use improvement, some more than others. I contend that the phrase "the vastness of crap on Wikipedia" is extremely misleading. We have a quality product and the world is beating a path to our door to sample it. Enough breastbeating! We should be proud.
- AirTrain_JFK
- Rather nice article about a rapid transit system in Queens.
- Claycomo,_Missouri
- Article about a small village in Missouri. Extensive use of census information
- David_J._Skorton
- Biography of the President of the University of Iowa.
- Jatayu
- Disambiguation page. Leads to two good short articles and one single-sentence stub. I added an appropriate stub template to the stub.
- 544
- A historical link page about the year 544 AD. Sadly it is lacking in
any information about what was happening outside Europe and the Northern Mediterranean area.
- Atlantis_Pattern
- A well written and compendiuous article about a feature of the
Japanese cartoon series: Transformers
- Narail_District
- A stub about a district of Bangladesh
- Barry_Clemens
- A brief biographical article about a professional basketball player
who retired in 1976.
- History_of_Naples
- It does what it says on the tin.
- Volksmusik
- An article about a German folk music form.