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I am a Wikipedian and have been since 2010. Because I read German, I occasionally refer to and edit German Wikipedia. I'm not so sure that German Wikipedia is r
by tokenadult 11y ago
I am a Wikipedian and have been since 2010. Because I read German, I occasionally refer to and edit German Wikipedia. I'm not so sure that German Wikipedia is really that much worse than English Wikipedia in the topics I follow most closely (psychology and linguistics), and I might rather say that English Wikipedia should be less hasty about adding new articles on every pop-culture topic for which few reliable sources exist.
- frik 11y agoGerman Wikipedia looses a lot of valuable content, on some days more than new content is added: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Deletions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Deletions The notability guidelines are very off in the German Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Characteristics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Wikipedia#Characteristi... English Wikipedia is really good. Though sometimes even there I wished some articles were on Wikipedia rather than some obscure Wikia-subwiki with tons of advertisement. It's not like HDD space costs much money these days. And all these article have sources anyway. Wikipedia had this nice "triva" sections that I love on IMDB.com up to 2006 (or so), sad some decided to delete them as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trivia_sections https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Triv... This guideline does not suggest removing trivia sections, or moving them to the talk page. If information is otherwise suitable, it is better that it be poorly presented than not presented at all.