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  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.

any information about what was happening outside Europe and the Northern Mediterranean area.
 * 544 : A historical link page about the year 544 AD. Sadly it is lacking in

Japanese cartoon series: Transformers
 * Atlantis_Pattern : A well written and compendiuous article about a feature of the


 * Narail_District : A stub about a district of Bangladesh

who retired in 1976.
 * Barry_Clemens : A brief biographical article about a professional basketball player


 * History_of_Naples : It does what it says on the tin.


 * Volksmusik : An article about a German folk music form.