Wikipedia talk:No one cares about your garage band/Archives/2023/December

25% of new articles are about garage bands
This essay had in its lead paragraph a sentence stating that about 25% of new articles on Wikipedia are about garage bands. Connected to that figure via wikilink was the concept "How to lie with statistics". No other reference was given. I have removed the figure. Yes, there are some new articles about garage bands. The figure is no where near 25%. It might be 3% or 4% tops. That's still a lot. But telling people that a quarter of new articles are about garage bands is ludicrous and blatantly misleading. Frankly, I am speechless that it was inserted there in the first place, and the wikilink just makes the whole thing a joke. I'd call "vandalism!" if I had the patience to find out who bothered to write that bit, but meh.... I'm busy. KDS 4444 Talk  14:29, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * I thought it was fairly clear that it was intended to be a joke. The essay has irreverence sprinkled throughout, so in context I don't find it egregious. —Largo Plazo (talk) 16:52, 11 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Well, as someone who was looking through the essay cursorily and in the middle of deciding whether or not to nominate a newly created article about just such a band, I guess the humor didn't stick. Garage bands do represent a segment of newly created articles that are not notable and which legitimately require nomination for deletion.  There is a point where an essay like this can maybe end up being a little too clever for itself... I wasn't looking for a joke, I was looking for help.   KDS 4444  Talk