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Thanks for the great response. > The concern is that articles that no one cares about I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about. A page ab

Thanks for the great response. > The concern is that articles that no one cares about I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about. A page about a notable person on Pitcairn Island might be accessed once a day by every single one of its inhabitants but that would only show as 1500 page views by 50 users per month.

luckylion 7y ago
I blieve it's not about visitors "not caring", but editors. A stub may be "Firstname Lastname is a person on Pitcairn Island" and nothing else. The article just sits there, doesn't provide value to anyone looking for info on that person and nobody appears to care enough to grow it into an informational article.
nullc 7y ago
> I wonder how they determine which articles no one cares about. Like everything on Wikipedia the answer is some messy mixture of formal and informal processes, automation, and 8.2 kilotons of thinking meat ... which often gets it wrong but gets it right often enough to produce something truly great. I haven't been involved in wikipedia gnoming for quite a while but I think: I think in practice what happens is that various editors who care about such things go around proposing stubs for deletion based on whatever criteria they think makes sense, and then other people sometimes oppose those proposed deletions (or moves to draftspace) with arguments and improving edits. So the criteria essentially is a measure of literal care put in by editors to preserve the article.
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