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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    [WikiEN-l] Delete bad articles?
From:       "gracefool" <standsongrace () hotmail ! com>
Date:       2004-08-31 11:05:28
Message-ID: ch1m2r$efv$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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> If all search results were always 100% accurate, well then... I'd agree
> with you Pete.
> However:
> In this imperfect world with imperfect Google search results, people
> *will* run across such "rubbish" or "not up to our standards" articles
> pretty quickly on Google the longer said articles stay online here.
> It's not exactly like we're situated at the a*se end of domain space
> that Google bots warely visit.
>
> So Rick has a fair point there.
>
> - Jens

However, when searching for "George Washington", the proper article is going
to appear *much* higher on the list that "George Washington's underwear".
People are only likely to come across "bad" articles when they search for
them. Also, Google's pagerank system means that good articles are going to
appear much higher in search results.

I'd also like to point that many stubs and "bad" articles have become very
good or even featured articles.

--
- gracefool



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