A good portion of the articles about India are empty articles or have
only a map or flag. They should probably be deleted. They were created
by a user whose sole aim was to increase the number of languages for
that article.
True Jesus Church has been the subject of similar efforts by an
individual, but it's not quite as bad (no empty pages and the like),
but there are a few of them that are just written in English with a
"request to be translated".
Linking to such non-articles is not constructive.
Mark
On 28/11/06, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And here the pages that, as far as I could see, got
the most extra interwiki
links during these last two months. Only pages that had 1 or more interwiki
links last time have been included, though. Also, where I found that there
was a different page on that title 2 months ago, pages have been removed. A
remark on the cause of the growth has been given, where I could discern it.
1. India +82 to 233
2. 2006 +57 to 150
3. Informatics +41 to 42 (other languages used to link to [[computer
science]])
4. Musa (genus) +38 to 45 (got a load of links that are also linked from
[[banana]])
5. Persian Empire +31 to 35 (was in a vandalised state 2 months ago)
6. Octave Mirbeau +31 to 46 (someone seems to have translated a stub into
many languages)
7. Ban Ki-moon +30 to 35 (next secretary-general of the UN)
8. Frankfurt +30 to 53
9. Tortoise +28 to 39 (now linked to many languages that have a single
article for turtles and tortoises)
10. 2005 +28 to 122
11. Advertising +27 to 29
12. September +27 to 92
13. Muhammad Yunus +25 to 33 (won the Nobel Peace Prize)
14. Korn +25 to 49 (has a new album?)
15. Hesse +25 to 65
16. Adam's Rib +24 to 26 (incorrectly linked to Adam in several languages -
reverted)
17. Orhan Pamuk +24 to 47 (won the Nobel Prize for Literature)
18. Freedom of speech (international) +23 to 24 (linked to pages that are
also linked from Freedom of speech)
19. Tributary +23 to 24
20. Republic of China +23 to 65
21. Wakker Prize +22 to 25 (mistake: had included Category:Prizes rather
than been put in it)
22. Toxicity +22 to 30 (has been linked to pages on [[poison]] instead. I
think the old links were better)
23. Game Boy +21 to 22
24. Anna Politkovskaya +21 to 28 (was murdered)
25. Karlstad Municipality +21 to 31
26. Bhopal (state) +19 to 20
27. Olimpia +18 to 19 (disamb; now linked to disambiguation pages Olympia as
well as Olimpia)
28. Edmund Phelps +18 to 21 (Nobel Prize winner in economics)
29. Ségolène Royal +18 to 32 (French socialist presidential election
candidate)
30. Battle of the Frontiers +17 to 18 (incorrectly linked to Battle of
Jutland; reverted)
31. Geothermal heating +17 to 18 (linked to geothermal energy/power in many
languages)
A few more that got high because of the news:
Grameen Bank +17 to 22 (co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize)
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of
Kazakhstan +16 to 17 (film released internationally)
Borat +16 to 23 (lead figure of aformentioned film)
Nancy Pelosi +14 to 19 (stays Democratic leader in the House, now majority
leader)
Daniel Ortega +14 to 25 (winner Nicaragua presidential elections)
Surayud Cholanont +12 to 14 (new prime minister of Thailand)
September 2006 +12 to 16 (recent month)
Pieter Willem Botha +12 to 23 (died)
Robert Gates +11 to 12 (U.S. secretary of defense nominee)
October 2006 +11 to 13 (recent month)
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