User:Alzarian16/BLP-PROD stats

A project I did in July 2010 in an attempt to gain specific statistics about the BLP PROD for the BLP request for comment phase 3.

Details
At 02:00 UK time on July 14, 2010, I watchlisted 30 articles in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion. I didn't edit the articles, and I didn't inform anyone that I'd done this as both of these would have made the sample unrepresentative.

Articles deleted by BLP PROD

 * Bulgan Maksim tagged A3 after 1 minute, subsequently BLPprodded after a few hours. Creator has no other edits. Deleted by
 * Chuck Hurley BLPprodded after 5 days, creator has no other edits. Deleted by
 * Wheeler Boys BLPprodded after 3 days. Creator has edited since. Deleted by
 * Joyce Ching BLPprodded after 12 days. Creator has not edited since. Deleted by Later recreated by another user and kept at AfD.
 * Carolina Ramirez BLPprodded after 11 days. Creator has edited since. Deleted by
 * Azsacra Zarathustra BLPprodded after 1 minute, creator has no other edits. Deleted by
 * Anupam Bhide BLPprodded after 4 and half hours. Creator has one subsequent edit. Deleted by
 * Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine BLPprodded after 4 minutes. Creator has not edited since the prod. Deleted by
 * Cindy Bond - Deleted by
 * Chandur Piryani, MD - Deleted by
 * Travis Baldree - Deleted by
 * Sanjay Batra - Deleted by . Later recreated by another user
 * Arthur Fleischmann - Deleted by
 * Carol Gray (actress) - Deleted by
 * T A Ramesh - Deleted by

Articles which survived
Accurate at time of writing. May change in the future as AfDs come into play.


 * Andrew Solt - Sources added by
 * Asma lmnawar - Sources added by
 * Sylvia Blyden - Sources added by
 * Carlo De Angelis - Sources added by
 * Roy Battersby - Sources added by
 * Cheikh Tidiane Gaye - PROD removed as inaccurate by
 * Amber D - Sources added by
 * Bray Cary - Sources added by and
 * Arup Chattopadhyay - Sources added by

Articles deleted by another method

 * Carl Burkhardt - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by
 * Askin Arslan - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by
 * Asif Ali (actor) - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by . Since recreated in an unsourced form, now partially sourced by... me.
 * Basilio Muhate - Deleted in July 2010 at AfD. External link converted to source by to prevent BLP-PROD deletion.
 * Christopher Buchtmann - Deleted in September 2010 at AfD. Sources added by - since blocked as an alternate account of a blocked user - to prevent BLP-PROD deletion.
 * Caton Bredar - Speedy deleted in September 2011 as G12 by for copying content from this site. BLP-PROD removed as inaccurate by  as article cited a reference.

Weaknesses in procedure

 * Small sample
 * Sample taken during RFC when there's more attention on the category
 * Sample taken in summer, when unreferenced BLP numbers generally increase

Some analysis
There are various ways of analysing the results, and I'm sure others will have different views (if anyone wants to leave their interpretation on the talk page, you're welcome to). However, I've decided to summarise some stuff that I noticed here:


 * Fifteen articles (50%) were deleted by BLP-PROD. Three (10%) were deleted under CSD; two (6.7%) was deleted at AfD. At present ten (33.3%) still exist.
 * Only two PRODs were removed as inaccurate
 * Seven users deleted expired BLP-PRODs; the same number added sources.
 * The admin with the joint highest number of deletions,, also had the joint highest number of source additions.
 * Only one article was sourced by its creator. Another was sourced by a sock of its now-blocked creator; eight were sourced by other users.