Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Productivity of Wikipedia Authors

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The result of the debate was Move. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 01:56, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

Productivity of Wikipedia Authors
This doesn't belong in the main article namespace. Delete or move to the project (Wikipedia:) namespace. Mindmatrix 16:28, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't bother moving it as it doesn't belong. It's a weird kind of OR that draws irrelevant conclusions. Comparing wikipedia articles across languages "might give some clues on the intellectual climate in various countries." Or not. Points out that Slovenia has an enormous % of articles relative to population compared to China. No sh*t. Marskell 16:43, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I looked back at this and realized my comments were unnecessarily disparaging. This article was posted by a new user who obviously went to a lot of work even if I don't think it belongs. Anyhow, sorry GJG if you stop by here. Marskell 18:49, 23 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Move to Wikipedia namespace. - Mgm|(talk) 18:48, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Wikipedia namespace. Give medals to Slovenes and Swedes. -- BD2412 talk 19:10, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to User:GJG/Productivity of Wikipedia Authors. Numbers are hokum.  Zoe 19:30, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to Wikipedia namespace. "might give some clues on the intellectual climate in various countries" can be taken away. Punkmorten 21:03, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Highly interesting original research. Move as above and create link within Multilingual statistics. Martg76 22:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OR, to start with, and the conclusions are inherently flawed. If there were some way to count the number of edits from each specific country in all Wikipedias and compare that with the country's populations and internet penetration, you might have some acceptable research. But this one is so fatally flawed by false assumptions that it is next to worthless. It assumes, for example, that no one from one country can speak a language which is not that country's primary language. That no Americans speak Spanish, for instance, and that no mainland Europeans speak English. This assumption is so clearly false as to render the statistics meaningless. How many English Wikipedians do you know not from "English-speaking" countries? Hell, there are a dozen of more English admins that are not from "English-speaking" countries (Joy, for instance, and Ahoerstemeier and Wilfried Derksen, to name just two more). Pointless pseudoresearch. Delete Grutness...  wha?  01:52, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * That's what I meant when I said the numbers were hokum.  You said it much better than I did.  :)  Zoe 18:19, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
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