Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Place names with English meanings
edit conflict)I think one of the reasons this article is in bad shape is because it's mainly written by anons and newcomers. Since there are so many, it's hard to check for accuracy, and another big problem is that some of the places that have no articles are actually not notable at all, considering they may be a single building, if you check Google Maps. Since there are so many, it would be hard to keep track of all of them, and also hard to controll and add any place names that have been missed. Remember, Wikipedia is a work-in-progress. It is a process, not nessecarily a finished work. Some of our articles, most of them in fact, are just in their beginning stages. Is that a reason to delete them? No, but we need someone experienced to work on it, otherwise it will slowly rot away. Some articles are almost never monitored. In fact, before I started editting and looking through Joseph Howe, for example, vandalism by an anon had went undetected for what, a month? The thing is, we need a larger responsible taskforce. We need someone to work on these articles sooner, and we need this to happen to more articles. Should we really set a mental time limit, not known by the other editors, and then delete the article after the article isn't getting attention? Well, I guess you could argue both ways. We can normally say that Wikipedia:The World Will Not End Tomorrow|The World Will Not End Tomorrow, and that, someday, our articles will get better improved. We can also say that, if we leave the articles to rot for a long time, more and more people will come across low-quality articles, and as the number of new readers increases, more people will see our articles in bad shape, and our overall impression will decline. Well, do all those notices and templates and lists begging for improvement of whatever article really even work anymore, that with so many articles in each of the lists and categories for improvement, and not enough people skilled at editting or not enough awareness of the articles that need to be improved? Someone needs to be bold in situations like this, pick an article, and improve it. Now, I could probably work on this article if it doesn't get deleted. I don't have enough time today, and since there are so many, this would be a long, difficult process. If we need better sources than Google Maps, which only prove that the place is probably real unless said person did something wrong, then we'll need to search for sources, remove the ones that can't be sourced or convincingly don't exsist, and remove the ones that don't belong in the article. Why does this article even belong here? Well, remember that many of the places listed actually ''do'' have articles. They can't all be irrelevent to the encyclopedia, right? If they are known and notable, even if it's mainly because English-speakers find it funny, it should have an article. It always helps to have a place that directs to links to articles on a specific topic, such as this one. Yes it needs more references, and we do need more experienced people working on it. Will people have time to help? That depends on the individual person. Remember, one person can make a big difference in any article, big or small. We do need to clean it up, and I'll try to add references and such, given enough time. Remember when I added two books as references? That pretty much sourced the ones I added at that time. Well, since no bot will probably be intelligent enough to automaticly perfect the article, we need to work together to help improve articles like this. If it's an incomplete list, I find, often the experienced users find something else to do, and the people that are less experienced go right at it. Sure, sometimes this stuff can get boring if you need to do a lot of work in a given amount of time, but that's why we're here, after all. We need to all collabrate to work on articles, and ones like this I think can be saved if we work on it in just the right way. So, we should find more sources, remove ones that don't belong, and add more legitimate ones, then do some cleanup work. Hopefully I'll have enough time soon to work on this. Is it "innapropriate"? |Wikipedia is not censored. Is it turning into a laugh pub? Well, English-speakers who find it funny are probably why the places became notable in the first place, and the place names themselves are usually just called a "funny" name because English-speakers find it funny. Are there too many in the list that don't belong? |Be bold and remove them. Thanks
— User:AstroHurricane001, 01:26, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:CENSORED||WP:BB (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)