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)

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[WikiEN-l] The deletion paradox
Tony Sidaway email addr elided
Tue Jan 31 10:21:10 UTC 2006

On 1/30/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> 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.

544

A historical link page about the year 544 AD. Sadly it is lacking in

any information about what was happening outside Europe and the Northern Mediterranean area.

Atlantis_Pattern

A well written and compendiuous article about a feature of the

Japanese cartoon series: Transformers

Narail_District

A stub about a district of Bangladesh

Barry_Clemens

A brief biographical article about a professional basketball player

who retired in 1976.

History_of_Naples

It does what it says on the tin.

Volksmusik

An article about a German folk music form.