User:Joolz/random test

The ten random pages test, stolen from Ambi and others. I thought I'd do this every month (until I get bored or forget) because... well, why not?

August

 * Whale - Great! A good start, it's through and quite well laid out.
 * Graham Hancock - Not bad either, not as detailed as the first article but I wouldn't expect it to be.
 * Kira Vincent-Davis - The first stub I encounter, about a voice actress I've never heard, who does voice roles in anime films, I think, although the article didn't say it.
 * CBNT - The second stub, a television call sign, and err... that's it. It's not a bad stub, as stubs go.
 * Chunnam Techno College - A stub about a college in South Korea, I think probably a university although the article doesn't make it particularly clear.
 * Intel 80486 - A proccessor chip, not a stub, looks detailed, but not something I can get enthusiastic about ;)
 * Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein - Quite detailed again, needed a bit of structural change, I broke it up into sections and I think that made it better.
 * R215 (KwaZulu-Natal) - A stub about a road in South Africa, although the article wasn't clear about that and I had to click on Regional Route (South Africa) to find out. At least it wasn't a British B-road though ;p
 * Autotrash - Oh dear. This article is a stub - basically an external link, it's marked with cleanup and it's on VFD, can it get any worse?
 * N.F.R.O. - A stub about a song from 2003. Looks like a good candidate to merge with the Gilbert Hotel album article (also a stub).

OK, so in total 6 out of 10 were stubs. 1 out of 10 are on VFD (I think that was just unlucky though ;) but all of them had categories, none of them (ok, bar one) need cleanup, so I don't think that's too bad. I'm quite pleased with this, actually. This sample represents around 0.00142% of Wikipedia's articles (which stands at around 700,000 when the test was conducted). Joolz 00:10, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

September

 * Kriegspiel (chess) - A stub, but certainly not a bad one. It explains concisely what it's about, but could do with some expansion.
 * Atrahasis Epic - A very short article tagged with cleanup from August. Interestingly (or not...) they have misspelt millennium not millenium but mellennium, very odd :)
 * Ayumi Asakura - An article about a Japanese actress, and that's *all* it says. The stub notices (two) take up more room than the actual article.
 * Wing Commander - Hmm, a disambiguation page - I didn't even think that they appeared using Special:Random. Well I suppose it could be formatted a little better...
 * Jean Petitot - An article imported from the 1911 Britannica in August 2005. Needs wikification, but not a stub.
 * Margaret Sambiria - An article about a Danish Queen consort. Not too shabby.
 * Riigihoidja - An article about Estonian politics, quite short and could do with expansion.
 * Vauban (disambiguation) - Another disambiguation page! Slightly better than before, but still...
 * Tin Machine - Marked as having an inappropriate tone and it could do with some general cleanup. Rather dissapointing.
 * 1689 in music - The worst article so far, basically. It is lacking... everything? The section are: Events, Opera, Births and Deaths which is rather unusual ;) And the only section with anything under it is opera. It has existed since 2003 and very little has changed on it.

So... 4 articles which are tagged as stubs (although more were quite short), 2 disambiguation pages, which is odd as I had none last time. 2 articles are marked with various cleanup tags and 1 is an import from Britannica. This seems to have got worse from last time, however this sample isn't really representative of Wikipedia (well, nor was the last one ;), there are around 734,000 articles so this sample represents 0.00136% of wikipedia. -- Joolz 17:35, 18 September 2005 (UTC)