On 11/9/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
Low priority, for me, except in cases of
defamation. But it also
depends on other things. [[Bob Dylan]] should have everything nailed
down with sources. The latest boy band - not so clear.
Lower priority than defamation, to be sure. But I think this is a large
and growing problem.
Here is a typical example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeli_Mateo
This is someone who *lost* on Philippine Idol, the Philippines version
of "Pop Idol" or "American Idol". The entire bio has no references,
the
photo is almost certainly a copyvio (I would delete it now, but I want
people to take a quick look at it first). "Greenarcher" claims to have
created it, but unless he is the official photographer for the show,
this seems quite unlikely.
The text is very much non-NPOV, and I have not yet done a check, but if
I had to guess, it is a straight ripoff from another website.
Not bad. The text was introduced by an IP and taken from here:
http://starmometer.com/2006/09/20/jellica-jelli-marie-mateo-philippine-idol…
Green archer's text was probably original.
This is a classic example of fancruft of the worst
sort. There is
virtually no chance that this article will ever improve, unless Ms.
Mateo becomes actually famous. (This could happen! And if it did, we
could have a good article about her.)
You sure they don't have gosip mags in the Philippines? Could be
asking the people from tl.wikipedia. They appear to be doing quite
well (has anyone checked if there any previous encyclopedias in the
Filipino language?)
As it stands, I don't think there is much that can
be done about this
article other than deletion.
Merge and redirect would be one course of action now the copyvios have
been vaporised.
--
geni