User:Robert K S/Tag count experiment

I repeated the experiment described by User:Kildor at the current discussion on the utility and appropriateness of "drive-by tagging". I went to 200 articles by using the Random article feature. This took me about an hour and 45 minutes. (Whenever I landed on an article marked as a disambig, stub, list, or calendar year, I moved on to the next without counting it.) In almost every article I visited, it was clear within 1 second of looking at the article that it required copyediting, MoS conforming, proofreading, additional sourcing, POV removal, or some other type of cleanup. Not discussed here is the large number of stubs needlessly marked with tags such as "no sources cited". (Marking an article as a stub should be sufficient warning that the article has deficiencies.) Additionally I felt that, were I a drive-by-tagger, I could have found reasons to place tags at more than 95% of the articles I visited.

Articles with (non-subject-informative) tags at the top: 30

Articles with cleanup/multiple issues tags (does not count "no sources cited"/"needs additional citations" tags): 10


 * 1) Blade: The Series
 * 2) Los Angeles Dodgers **
 * 3) Albert Shanker Institute
 * 4) Marko Jovanović
 * 5) Trafalgar House (company)
 * 6) Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
 * 7) American Councils for International Education
 * 8) Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
 * 9) William Morrow (Australian physician)
 * 10) Ongole
 * 11) World Climate Report **
 * 12) Zlatan Muslimović
 * 13) League of Assassins
 * 14) Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden-Baden *
 * 15) George "Porky" Andrews **
 * 16) Relic of the tooth of the Buddha
 * 17) Governors of Roman Britain
 * 18) William Miller (British publisher)
 * 19) RTP África
 * 20) British baseball
 * 21) Wrights Hill Fortress
 * 22) Doublespeak *
 * 23) Flow table test
 * 24) Supply chain management software
 * 25) Star cluster *
 * 26) Nina Stemme *
 * 27) Bulevar (band)
 * 28) Turbo Prop Racing *
 * 29) Jeffersonville Ethics Commission
 * 30) Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (Denver, Colorado)
 * 31) Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
 * 32) Reassurance marker
 * 33) Deepwater arrowtooth eel
 * 34) Volunteer Air Observers Corps (Australia)
 * 35) Fellows Riverside Gardens
 * 36) The Ruins of Gorlan
 * 37) Mind game *
 * 38) Jack Marshall
 * 39) Fallon Bowman
 * 40) Gail Shaffer
 * 41) Conditum Paradoxum
 * 42) World Snooker Championship 2008
 * 43) Reinaldo Elias da Costa
 * 44) Jieh
 * 45) Monarchy of Antigua and Barbuda
 * 46) Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
 * 47) Conditional loop
 * 48) West Papua (Indonesian province)
 * 49) 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6
 * 50) Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2002
 * 51) Effects unit *
 * 52) Mošćenice
 * 53) J. Spencer Lanthier
 * 54) Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's road race
 * 55) Guitar Slim
 * 56) Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises
 * 57) Army Medical School
 * 58) Bösendorfer
 * 59) SMC protein
 * 60) Phoenix Guard **
 * 61) El Rey (The Wedding Present album)
 * 62) Oliver Bulleid *
 * 63) Fox River (Little Wabash tributary)
 * 64) Biscayne Bay
 * 65) Lindley Murray
 * 66) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) Season 1
 * 67) Yosef Tunkel *
 * 68) William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
 * 69) Artemisia (genus)
 * 70) Clontarf Castle
 * 71) It's Alright (Echo & the Bunnymen song)
 * 72) Mary of Burgundy
 * 73) The Colossus (Goya)
 * 74) Robert Buchanan (footballer)
 * 75) Augustin Keller
 * 76) Pale Force **
 * 77) Short-term mission *
 * 78) Thomas Powell
 * 79) Hayes, Hillingdon
 * 80) SAGEM Crecerelle
 * 81) Tamas (philosophy) **
 * 82) Nacaduba kurava
 * 83) Dan Lalonde *
 * 84) Rudimentary Peni
 * 85) Laurel School District (Mississippi)
 * 86) Comprehensive income (accounting)
 * 87) Kavali
 * 88) Bill Gilligan
 * 89) Judith Auer
 * 90) James Cowgill
 * 91) Lombardo (family)
 * 92) Erekle II
 * 93) Conspiracy (demogroup)
 * 94) Public Analyst
 * 95) Skrappys
 * 96) Adelanto, California
 * 97) Dick (film)
 * 98) Lady Zhurong
 * 99) Earlington, Kentucky
 * 100) Mick Miller
 * 101) Fragaria yezoensis
 * 102) Price elasticity of supply
 * 103) Oakleigh Barracks *
 * 104) Daniel Martín
 * 105) Gabriel Heinze
 * 106) Avitaminosis *
 * 107) Moygashel
 * 108) Al Hall (musician)
 * 109) 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 10000 metres
 * 110) Walter Reed Army Medical Center
 * 111) Balerno
 * 112) Kiran Bedi
 * 113) Lust (Ambitious Lovers album)
 * 114) Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
 * 115) Blarney Stone
 * 116) Martin Snedden *
 * 117) 1992 Rugby League State of Origin series
 * 118) Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter
 * 119) Caseville Township, Michigan
 * 120) Particle radiation
 * 121) Lincoln Square Institute
 * 122) Olof Wallqvist
 * 123) Elwood Cooke
 * 124) Birmingham International railway station *
 * 125) Fiesta Fiasco
 * 126) Education Improvement Tax Cut Act
 * 127) Straight, Incorporated
 * 128) 1982 West African Nations Cup
 * 129) Te Voy A Perder
 * 130) Bad Taste
 * 131) Blue Stockings Society (England)
 * 132) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (has a split suggestion tag not counted in the total, as that sort of tag is somewhat informative about the article subject)
 * 133) Pablo Forlán
 * 134) Inđija
 * 135) Lexington Avenue/59th Street (New York City Subway)
 * 136) Cody Wallace
 * 137) Bella Venezia
 * 138) Right Here, Right Now (DVD)
 * 139) Channa gachua
 * 140) Dennis Hopper
 * 141) Rashid Zia
 * 142) Kassel Huskies
 * 143) Yotsunoha
 * 144) Alkyonides Gulf *
 * 145) Benjamin Szold
 * 146) Anna Anderson
 * 147) Baisingen
 * 148) Yuriy Polyakov
 * 149) Vehicular cycling **
 * 150) Pythium
 * 151) Implicit address *
 * 152) Interleukin 12
 * 153) Sri Lankan Ayurvedic tradition
 * 154) Restrepia muscifera
 * 155) We Are What We Do
 * 156) When You Believe
 * 157) War Rock
 * 158) Battle of Assietta
 * 159) Vetiver (band)
 * 160) Sun Caged
 * 161) Scythed Chariot
 * 162) Cotyledon *
 * 163) Jeff Redd
 * 164) Galenskaparna och After Shave
 * 165) Hassan Dehqani-Tafti
 * 166) Great Tellico
 * 167) North Liberty, Indiana
 * 168) Runnymede
 * 169) 2000 Spanish Grand Prix
 * 170) Portland Spy Ring
 * 171) Patrik Ringborg
 * 172) Jo Anderson
 * 173) Steve Goodman
 * 174) The Cloud of Unknowing
 * 175) Najafgarh
 * 176) Aarani, Tamil Nadu *
 * 177) Sharon Presley *
 * 178) Randeep Hooda
 * 179) Kenneth R. Bartlett
 * 180) Chin Check
 * 181) Matthew Nathan
 * 182) Pietro Deiro
 * 183) Michael J. Corbitt
 * 184) Mary Kelly (artist)
 * 185) Port Oneida Rural Historic District
 * 186) Lloyd Tavernier **
 * 187) Fireborn **
 * 188) Gary Goetzman
 * 189) Gospel of Truth
 * 190) 15th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
 * 191) Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
 * 192) Detroit Junior Red Wings
 * 193) Mike Pressler
 * 194) Ashbel Smith
 * 195) OpenGate
 * 196) Monte Cook
 * 197) Hey (band)
 * 198) Fantastic Voyage
 * 199) MobileMe
 * 200) UCrime **


 * * non-subject-informative tag at the top
 * ** cleanup or multiple issues tag or more than two separate tags