A project I did in July 2010 in an attempt to gain specific statistics about the BLP PROD for the BLP request for comment phase 3.
Details edit
At 02:00 UK time on July 14, 2010, I watchlisted 30 articles in Category:BLP articles proposed for deletion. I didn't edit the articles, and I didn't inform anyone that I'd done this as both of these would have made the sample unrepresentative.
Articles deleted by BLP PROD edit
- Bulgan Maksim tagged A3 after 1 minute, subsequently BLPprodded after a few hours. Creator has no other edits. Deleted by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Chuck Hurley BLPprodded after 5 days, creator has no other edits. Deleted by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Wheeler Boys BLPprodded after 3 days. Creator has edited since. Deleted by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Joyce Ching BLPprodded after 12 days. Creator has not edited since. Deleted by Fences and windows (talk · contribs) Later recreated by another user and kept at AfD.
- Carolina Ramirez BLPprodded after 11 days. Creator has edited since. Deleted by Tassedethe (talk · contribs)
- Azsacra Zarathustra BLPprodded after 1 minute, creator has no other edits. Deleted by Jmlk17 (talk · contribs)
- Anupam Bhide BLPprodded after 4 and half hours. Creator has one subsequent edit. Deleted by CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs)
- Aubry "Big Juice" Delaine BLPprodded after 4 minutes. Creator has not edited since the prod. Deleted by CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs)
- Cindy Bond - Deleted by CambridgeBayWeather (talk · contribs)
- Chandur Piryani, MD - Deleted by DGG (talk · contribs)
- Travis Baldree - Deleted by J04n (talk · contribs)
- Sanjay Batra - Deleted by J04n (talk · contribs). Later recreated by another user
- Arthur Fleischmann - Deleted by J04n (talk · contribs)
- Carol Gray (actress) - Deleted by J04n (talk · contribs)
- T A Ramesh - Deleted by Tivedshambo (talk · contribs)
Articles which survived edit
Accurate at time of writing. May change in the future as AfDs come into play.
- Andrew Solt - Sources added by Vejvančický (talk · contribs)
- Asma lmnawar - Sources added by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Sylvia Blyden - Sources added by Phil Bridger (talk · contribs)
- Carlo De Angelis - Sources added by Der Schalk (talk · contribs)
- Roy Battersby - Sources added by Vejvančický (talk · contribs)
- Cheikh Tidiane Gaye - PROD removed as inaccurate by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Amber D - Sources added by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Bray Cary - Sources added by DGG (talk · contribs) and Novickas (talk · contribs)
- Arup Chattopadhyay - Sources added by Vejvančický (talk · contribs)
Articles deleted by another method edit
- Carl Burkhardt - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by Fences and windows (talk · contribs)
- Askin Arslan - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by Davewild (talk · contribs)
- Asif Ali (actor) - Speedy deleted in July 2010 as CSD A7 by DGG (talk · contribs). Since recreated in an unsourced form, now partially sourced by... me.
- Basilio Muhate - Deleted in July 2010 at AfD. External link converted to source by WereSpielChequers (talk · contribs) to prevent BLP-PROD deletion.
- Christopher Buchtmann - Deleted in September 2010 at AfD. Sources added by Alex "bwfc" Latham (talk · contribs) - since blocked as an alternate account of a blocked user - to prevent BLP-PROD deletion.
- Caton Bredar - Speedy deleted in September 2011 as G12 by Moonriddengirl (talk · contribs) for copying content from this site. BLP-PROD removed as inaccurate by 75.4.236.228 (talk · contribs) as article cited a reference.
Weaknesses in procedure edit
- Small sample
- Sample taken during RFC when there's more attention on the category
- Sample taken in summer, when unreferenced BLP numbers generally increase
Some analysis edit
There are various ways of analysing the results, and I'm sure others will have different views (if anyone wants to leave their interpretation on the talk page, you're welcome to). However, I've decided to summarise some stuff that I noticed here:
- Fifteen articles (50%) were deleted by BLP-PROD. Three (10%) were deleted under CSD; two (6.7%) was deleted at AfD. At present ten (33.3%) still exist.
- Only two PRODs were removed as inaccurate
- Seven users deleted expired BLP-PRODs; the same number added sources.
- The admin with the joint highest number of deletions, Fences and windows (talk · contribs), also had the joint highest number of source additions.
- Only one article was sourced by its creator. Another was sourced by a sock of its now-blocked creator; eight were sourced by other users.