Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Desperate articles

The following discussion is an archived proposal of the WikiProject below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.

The resulting WikiProject was not created

Description

A project to draw attention to, cleanup, and expand high priority, low rated articles. Leonxlin (talk) 23:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It saddens me to see shabby articles on important topics, the type that make you feel like it's 2004. I feel like a lot of these high-priority articles are often neglected because they don't get the attention they need. They're lost in mammoth clean-up and "needs attention" lists amidst thousands of articles on obscure topics. The especially depressing articles are not the ones that necessarily needed editing, but those that need writing. Often it's just that the content needed is on related articles. I first noticed desperate math articles, and started some discussion on the WikiProject Mathematics talk page, but I feel that this Wikipedia-wide problem might get some more attention as a project. Examples of desperate articles:

• Equation
• Real analysis
• Linear algebra
• Western philosophy
• Oil
• Male,Female
• History of Asia
• Mass media
• Circulatory system
• Condensed matter physics

These subjects cover huge swaths of knowledge, but their articles are rather unimpressive.

Perhaps a Category:Desperate articles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) would be cool.

The WP1.0 bot seems useful, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Language articles by quality statistics for example.

Support

Please specify whether or not you would join the project.

1. Leonxlin (talk) 23:28, 1 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

There's Wikipedia:WikiProject Abandoned Articles. It is inactive, but you may re-start it. ~~Ebe123~~ (+) ^talk
_Contribs 21:57, 12 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the project's talk page (if created) or at the WikiProject Council). No further edits should be made to this page.