Just sent.
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From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Date: 25-Jul-2006 18:35
Subject: Wikipedia, Scotland and semi-protected articles
To: Murdo Macleod
I just remembered the article on Jordanhill Railway Station in Glasgow
- an utterly unremarkable train platform in suburban Glasgow, but
someone wrote an article about it that just happened to be the one
millionth article in the English Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanhill_railway_station
If you look at the original version -
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jordanhill_railway_station&ol…
- you can see just how much detail can be written about something when
it comes to everyone's attention ;-)
That article was semi-protected for a while, around March 2-3, because
of the incredible numbers of people coming to see article 1,000,000
and of course it got some vandalism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Jordanhill_r…
It was semiprotected for the usual reason, i.e. lots of attention
leading to people putting rubbish in. It was unprotected as soon as
was feasible.
I don't know if that's contentious enough, but it is a recent example
of local interest :-)
- thanks, David.