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Speedy deletion nomination of Woffles Wu

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PROD Woffles Wu

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Speedy deletion nomination of Monoprice

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Please stop

Please stop nominating places for deletion. You need to do WP:BEFORE every time you consider nominating any article for deletion. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 06:58, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Eastmain - can i check what is wrong with the nominations? I have done WP:BEFORE and have reviewed the pages before nomination. Hongsy (talk) 08:42, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Under current consensus, as (not very eloquently) expressed at WP:NSPECIES, species articles are kept even in short stub form if the taxon is accepted and validly described. Each taxon nominated by you so far had at least one source demonstrating that this was the case. The most generally applicable databases for all organisms to verify this are GBIF, Catalogue of Life, and (for plants) Plants of the World Online - with a great many other more specialized repositories available for specific groups. Sometimes one has to dig a little deeper if databases lag behing re-classification, or if synonyms are muddled up. If you are not comfortable diving into these details, I would suggest not nominating taxa articles for deletion at all. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 12:03, 29 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @Elmidae Hongsy (talk) 12:39, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Hi there. I noticed a large batch of AfD nominations all on Nov 9. It can be hard for editors to work through so many nominations at once. —siroχo 09:49, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

thanks @Siroxo - is there a way to bulk nominate similar articles for deletion? Hongsy (talk) 14:13, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

You're almost certainly a sockpuppet of somebody. You have less than 500 edits since 2009. No highly inactive user suddenly has a desire to mass nominate articles at AFD unless they are using their account to pursue their cause from another account. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:29, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

hi, what's a sockpuppet? the reason why I want to clean up is because I found this article on Hacker news so I'm going through the list manually to delete the articles. Is this allowed? Hongsy (talk) 23:59, 9 November 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps you're honest on this. Extract from your article: "But hey, these hyper-obscure, tiny articles aren’t doing any harm (other than maybe disappointing the dozen people per year who land on them, rather than a more interesting fleshed-out article, when hitting the “Random article” button), and they lay a groundwork that other editors might build on in the future."

The issue with this is that people will assume they are hyper obscure because they're so short, but may have hundreds of people living in them. What makes them more obscure than a hamlet in the UK with five people which might be a full length article? It comes down to coverage and unfortunately there is much systematic bias in what sources can be used for such articles. Developing world countries are less likely to have much information if any available for small settlements, but this has certainly gradually improved globally since I first started on here. The idea of course is that the "disappointed people" visiting these stubs expand them themselves. Which largely doesn't happen, but we weren't to know that back in the early days of the site where creating such stubs was seen as "planting seeds", right Ser Amantio di Nicolao? I believe that an article can potentially be written about any human settlement or geo feature on the planet, but in cases where there is currently no information then merging the scraps we have into a list is a good way to go. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:11, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Polmalagama for example, see on Google Maps here. It looks like a standard village in Sri Lanka, certainly not obscure to the people living there. There are several hits in Sri Lankan library and government sources like PDFs but the links are dead on my computer. It's a valid criticism, which seems to be increasing of late. What do we do with these unedited short stubs when there is a distinct lack of information about them online? ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:22, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Can be expanded even just using google maps and one old gazetteer. The problem is that nobody is doing it and the lack of further sources available. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:40, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

hi @Dr. Blofeld - that's not my article. i just found it online so i'm using it to clean up wikipedia Hongsy (talk) 13:13, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Well, you'd be better off expanding articles you have a problem with like this. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 13:15, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

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