A random survey of 100 Wikipedia biographies, originally done November 30, 2005-February 7, 2006. I plan to update it once in a blue moon.
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephen J. Solarz | 1900 | No | 3 | Med | 9 | 18,000 | None | Ex-US-Congressman |
| 2 | Khaosai Galaxy | 1900 | No | 10 | Med | 9 | 275 | None | Thai boxer; sympathetic bio |
| 3 | Pierre Viret | 1500 | 3 | 6* | Med | 9 | 844 | None | Swiss theologian |
| 4 | Samuel Sebastian Wesley | 1800 | 2 | 3* | Low | 8 | 13,800 | None | English musician/composer |
| 5 | Stian Arnesen | 2000 | No | 5* | Low | 8 | 529 | None | Norwegian musician |
| 6 | Mick Rogers | 1900 | 2 | 4* | Low | 2 | 51 | None | British park warden. Feels like a memorial. |
| 7 | Tom Garrett | 1800 | 2 | 6 | Low | 6 | 611 | None | Australian cricket player |
| 8 | Wesley Wyndam-Pryce | N/A | No | 12 | Low | 29 | 21,400 | None | Fictional, gives note |
| 9 | Romeo Munoz Cachola | 2000 | No | 4 | Med | 1 | 7 | None | Minor Hawaiian legislator |
| 10 | Justin Leonard | 2000 | No | 3* | Stub | 29 | 227,000 | None | American golfer |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 11 | Lord Percy Percy | N/A | No | 7 | Low | 15 | 155 | None | Fictional, gives note |
| 12 | Epenisa Cakobau | 2000 | No | 2 | Low | 5 | 556 | None | Fijian chief |
| 13 | Gersem | 600 | 1 | 2* | Stub | 2 | 36 | None | Ancient African king |
| 14 | Lee Hyo-jung | 2000 | No | 3* | Low | 11 | 9,910 | None | Korean ameuter badminton player |
| 15 | Cephas Washburn | 1800 | No | 9 | Med | 8 | 163 | None | American missionary |
| 16 | Badal Roy | 1900 | No | 3* | Low | 6 | 33,300 | None | American musician |
| 17 | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown | 1700 | No | 2 | Low | 19 | 304 | None | Historical British admiral |
| 18 | Baltasar Corrada del Río | 1900 | No | 6* | Med | 11 | 330 | None | Puerto Rican politician |
| 19 | Billy Tauzin III | 2000 | No | 2 | Low | 3 | 630 | None | Failed US candidate for an unspecified position. Listed on VfD. |
| 20 | Marie-Hélène Chisholm | 2000 | No | 1 | Stub | 5 | 576 | None | Canadian ameuter athlete (judo) |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 21 | Damien English | 2000 | No | 4 | Low | 5 | 627 | None | Irish politican |
| 22 | Carl Charlier | 1800 | No | 3* | Low | 13 | 202 | None | Swedish astronomer |
| 23 | Joseph Marion Hernandez | 1800 | 6 | 3 | Med | 4 | 221 | None | American politican and general |
| 24 | Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland | 1900 | No | 4* | Low | 7 | 240 | None | Scottish peer |
| 25 | Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham | 1900 | No | 3* | Low | 1 | 350 | None | Mother of an American politican |
| 26 | Ellis Wynne | 1700 | No | 1* | Stub | 1 | 349 | None | Welsh author. Copyvio. Article is only one sentence long, and that one sentence is lifted straight from Britannica! |
| 27 | Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole | 1900 | No | 6 | Med | 23 | 573 | None | Hawaiian prince, American politican |
| 28 | Gottfried Semper | 1800 | No | 10 | Low | 32 | 24,900 | None | Half-finished bio of a German architect |
| 29 | Leah Purcell | 2000 | No | 3 | Med | 8 | 20,400 | None | Australian actress |
| 30 | Jack Hutton | ???? | No | 3 | Low | 2 | ??? | None | Canadian pianist/bar owner. Missing critical information such as when he lived, what makes him notable. |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 31 | Uros velickovic | 2000 | No | 1* | Stub | 0 | ??? | None | Serbian freelance journalist. Almost no English Google hits. Speedy-deleted as non-notable bio. |
| 32 | Mihai Dolgan | 2000 | No | 1 | Stub | 2 | 208 | None | Moldovan singer and composer |
| 33 | Vladimir Drinfel'd | 1900 | No | 4 | Med | 54 | 75 | None | Russian mathemetician. Google hits are for the last name "Drinfeld". |
| 34 | Ana Guevara | 2000 | No | 3* | Low | 19 | 9,620 | None | Mexican athlete |
| 35 | James K. Dressel | 1900 | No | 3 | Low | 0 | 55 | None | American politican |
| 36 | Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach | 1800 | No | 3* | Med | 2 | 420 | None | German surgeon, written in a mix of past and present tense |
| 37 | Christian Holst | 2000 | No | 2* | Stub | 2 | 300 | None | Danish/Faroese soccer player |
| 38 | Bobby Joe Morrow | 1900 | No | 6* | Med | 110 | 663 | None | American Olympic athlete, three navboxes that dwarf the rest of the article |
| 39 | Marcelo Tinelli | 1900 | No | 4 | Med | 5 | 45,000 | None | Argentine personality |
| 40 | Renata Scotto | 1900 | No | 7 | Good | 9 | 28,000 | None | Italian opera singer |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 41 | Giambattista Marini | 1600 | 1 | 4* | Med | 20 | 54 | None | Italian poet |
| 42 | Prayer Reverie | N/A | No | 4 | Low | 14 | 1050 | None | Fictional, does not make the fact obvious |
| 43 | Bas Rutten | 1900 | No | 5 | Med | 10 | 65,600 | None | Dutch martial artist |
| 44 | John of Avila | 1500 | No | 1* | Stub | 9 | 565 | None | Spanish mystic/saint |
| 45 | Andy Quach | 2000 | No | 4* | Med | 0 | 4130 | None | Minor American politican |
| 46 | Willard Boyle | 1900 | No | 5 | Med | 5 | 692 | None | Canadian physicist/inventor |
| 47 | Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky | 1700 | No | 3 | Med | 1 | 38 | None | Russian aristocrat |
| 48 | Terry Porter | 1900 | No | 7 | Low | 18 | 107,000 | None | American sports figure, written from a fan perspective |
| 49 | Edward Harris, 4th Earl of Malmesbury | 1800 | No | 4* | Stub | 3 | 120 | None | British peer, many Google hits are for his successor, "James Edward Harris" |
| 50 | James Chapin | 1900 | No | 2* | Stub | 2 | ??? | None | American ornithologist, many Google hits for the artist by that name. |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 51 | Vidar Sandbeck | 1900 | No | 4* | Med | 1 | 338 | None | Norwegian singer/composer/writer, 22000+ non-English Google hits |
| 52 | John Miller (Governor) | 1800 | No | 1 | Med | 1 | ??? | None | Governor of North Dakota, many non-related Google hits |
| 53 | Gerd Gies | 1900 | No | 1* | Stub | 1 | 188 | None | German politician |
| 54 | Buichi Terasawa | 2000 | No | 2* | Stub | 3 | 865 | None | Japanese manga artist; many non-English Google hits, many Google hits for "Terasawa Buichi" |
| 55 | Béatrice de Planissoles | 1200 | 1 | 6 | Med | 2 | 181 | None | Minor noble in the County of Foix |
| 56 | Phil Zimmermann | 2000 | No | 2 | Low | 16 | 145,000 | None | Cryptography expert |
| 57 | Otto Kuhler | 1900 | No | 4* | Low | 4 | 797 | None | American artist and designer |
| 58 | Jean Cruppi | 1800 | No | 1* | Stub | 10 | 201 | None | French politician |
| 59 | Gwen Hotchkiss | N/A | 1 | 12 | Low | 21 | 11,800 | None | Fictional, gives note |
| 60 | Marcelo Tosatti | 2000 | No | 2 | Low | 4 | 390,000 | None | Brazilian programmer |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 61 | Boris Polevoy | 1900 | No | 1 | Stub | 3 | 432 | None | Russian author |
| 62 | Helmut Kohl | 1900 | No | 19 | Good | 149 | 1,840,000 | None | German politician |
| 63 | Ashur-uballit II | 600 BC | No | 4 | Low | 7 | 341 | None | Assyrian king |
| 64 | Constance of Austria | 1600 | No | 2 | Low | 10 | 593 | None | Austrian noblewoman |
| 65 | Jacob Pavlovitch Adler | 1800 | 6 | 55 | High | 57 | 110 | None | Jewish actor |
| 66 | Richard Harrison Garver | ???? | No | 1* | Substub | 0 | 0 | None | American inventor. Gives no information; listed on VfD |
| 67 | Andy Rourke | 1900 | No | 4* | Low | 30 | 72,800 | None | English entertainer |
| 68 | James Lapum | 1800 | No | 3* | Low | 2 | 3 | None | Canadian politician |
| 69 | Padrinho Sebastião | 1900 | No | 3 | Med | 1 | 302 | None | Brazilian, reads like an epitaph, copyvio |
| 70 | James Hilton | 1900 | No | 5 | Med | 46 | 269,000 | None | English novelist |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 71 | Sandro Botticelli | 1400 | No | 10 | Med | 123 | 345,000 | None | Italian artist; confused organization |
| 72 | John Henry Livingston | 1800 | No | 2 | Med | 6 | 199 | None | American theologian |
| 73 | Tetsuya Iwanaga | 2000 | No | 1 | Stub | 13 | 1870 | None | Japanese voice actor |
| 74 | Pat Jennings | 1900 | No | 6 | Med | 34 | 37,900 | None | UK soccer player, rather confused writing |
| 75 | Joanne V. Creighton | 1900 | No | 3* | Stub | 3 | 534 | None | American college president |
| 76 | Alan Abraham | 1900 | No | 3* | Low | 9 | 181 | None | Canadian politician |
| 77 | Greg Raymer | 2000 | No | 12* | Low | 52 | 209,000 | None | American poker player |
| 78 | Dara Ó Briain | 2000 | No | 6 | Low | 15 | 56,500 | None | Irish entertainer |
| 79 | Eutropia | 300 | No | 2 | Low | 5 | ??? | None | Roman nobility, many irrelevant Google hits |
| 80 | Emeric of Hungary (saint) | 1000 | No | 1 | Low | 14 | 9,240 | None | Catholic saint |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 81 | Dan Tsalka | 1900 | 2 | 7* | Med | 2 | 1230 | None | Israli writer |
| 82 | Věra Čáslavská | 1900 | No | 7 | Good | 12 | 9410 | None | Czechoslovakian gymnast |
| 83 | Gol Acheron | N/A | No | 4* | Low | 7 | 202 | None | Fictional, has note |
| 84 | Abelardo Diaz Alfaro | 1900 | No | 6* | Med | 7 | 1120 | None | Puerto Rican author |
| 85 | Louis II, Count of Montpensier | 1400 | No | 2* | Stub | 6 | ??? | None | French noble, many unrelated Google hits |
| 86 | Yona Kosashvili | 1900 | No | 1 | Stub | 5 | 798 | None | Israeli chess player |
| 87 | Ben Pollack | 1900 | No | 8 | Good | 15 | 29,000 | None | American musician |
| 88 | Georges Valensi | 1900 | No | 2 | Low | 4 | 1180 | None | French inventor |
| 89 | Jerome James | 1900 | No | 7* | Low | 11 | 124,000 | None | American athlete; large trivia section |
| 90 | Susarion | 600 BC | 2 | 4 | Med | 1 | 251 | None | Greek poet. 1911 Britannica, and reads like it. |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments | |
| 91 | Bob Denny | 1900 | No | 3 | Low | 4 | 19,900 | None | American programmer |
| 92 | Edward Bellamy | 1800 | No | 8 | Good | 39 | 122,000 | None | American author; some "further reading" links might be sources |
| 93 | Thomas Keating | 1900 | 1 | 3 | Low | 5 | 75,300 | None | American religious figure |
| 94 | Friedrich Blass | 1800 | 1 | 6 | Low | 9 | 786 | None | German scholar; copy-and-paste of 1911 Britannica |
| 95 | Evades | N/A | No | 4 | Low | 7 | ??? | Spoiler | Fictional, gives note. I'm sure the article would make more sense if I was familar with the television show involved. Google results not meaningful. |
| 96 | Denis Papin | 1600 | No | 6 | Low | 13 | 117,000 | None | French inventor. Based on the Google results, is missing a lot. |
| 97 | Elizabeth Bentley | 1900 | 7 | 15 | Good | 48 | 22,400 | None | Soviet spy. No lead paragraph. |
| 98 | Robert D. Cardona | 1900 | No | 2 | Low | 5 | 539 | None | British director |
| 99 | Billy Flynn | 2000 | No | 3* | Low | 1 | ??? | Wikify | American entertainer. Google hits seem to be for someone else. |
| 100 | Shalini | 2000 | No | 3* | Low | 4 | ??? | None | Indian actress. Many apparently-unrelated Google hits. |
| Article | Century | Sources | Length | Coverage | Inlinks | Googles | Warning tags | Comments |
*Many one-sentence paragraphs
| Coverage qualtiy | |
|---|---|
| High | 1 |
| Good | 6 |
| Med | 29 |
| Low | 45 |
| Stub | 19 |
| sourcing | |
|---|---|
| Articles with sources | 13 |
| Sources per article | 2.8 |
| profession | |
|---|---|
| Fictional characters | 6 |
| Politicians and leaders | 18 |
| Aristocrats | 7 |
| Creative arts | 16 |
| Athletes | 13 |
| Actors | 4 |
| Musicians | 8 |
| Other performing arts | 2 |
| Scholars, scientists, inventors | 11 |
| Military figures | 1 |
| Saints | 2 |
| Other | 12 |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| United States | 30 |
| Other N. America | 6 |
| South America | 3 |
| Western Europe | 33 |
| Eastern Europe and Russia | 10 |
| Middle East | 3 |
| Africa | 1 |
| Asia | 5 |
| Australia | 1 |
| Oceana | 1 |
| date | |
|---|---|
| -600 | 2 |
| -500 | 0 |
| -400 | 0 |
| -300 | 0 |
| -200 | 0 |
| -100 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
| 100 | 0 |
| 200 | 0 |
| 300 | 1 |
| 400 | 0 |
| 500 | 0 |
| 600 | 1 |
| 700 | 0 |
| 800 | 0 |
| 900 | 0 |
| 1000 | 1 |
| 1100 | 0 |
| 1200 | 1 |
| 1300 | 0 |
| 1400 | 2 |
| 1500 | 2 |
| 1600 | 3 |
| 1700 | 3 |
| 1800 | 15 |
| 1900 | 41 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| N/A | 6 |
| Unknown | 2 |
303 non-bio articles were encountered during the survey, including 12 albums, 4 songs, 6 bands, 6 movies, 3 TV show, 1 TV episode, 1 radio station, 1 comic book, 1 manga, 7 books, 4 fictional objects, 16 Rambot-created articles, 5 schools, 2 deleted Bethune, Saskatchewan North Bay Progressive, 2 copyvio Israeli whist The Elf Queen of Shannara, 1 redirected Acoustic feedback, 2 candidates for transwiki How to swim Shrivel