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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 arti
by frik 10y ago
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.
- TillE 10y agoPlease 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.
- kstrauser 10y agoThe Oxford English Dictionary (sample: http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663 http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/80663) weeps. There's a lot of value to some in listing references to a topic.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoThere'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.
- kstrauser 10y agoCertainly, 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.
- basch 10y agowhy do you care? why cant the information exist, maybe be hidden by default, and shown after clicking an expand button.
- jpalomaki 10y agoEmbarrassing for who? I don't see problem with this kind of extra material if it's clearly marked and can be easily ignored.
- slouch 10y agoThe 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_law