This provides analysis of Doncram's created and deleted articles. It is based on User:Doncram/Articles1, a complete list of Doncram's articles, which is a very large article itself and is slow to edit. This analysis is summarized in User:Doncram/Articles.
About deleted articles
editAccording to an X-tools report in February 2015, Doncram had created 9,344 mainspace articles, not including redirects, of which 34 had been deleted. An additional set of 24 creations since then are identified in an Xtools update run in April 2016. Out of the 9,368 total, there were only 6 articles that Doncram created in mainspace that were AFD'd and deleted. The fraction deleted is 6 / 9,368 = .000639. Or 6 / 9,340 = .000641, if the total is reduced by an estimate of how many creations weren't permanent, e.g. creations having a typo in name, for which I myself requested deletion.
- In three of the six removals upon AFD, I argued "Keep" at AFD or did not participate but might have argued "Keep" if I did. These were:
- List of courthouse buildings in the United States: A and redirect at intended name List of courthouses in the United States, removed by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of courthouse buildings in the United States: A of March 27. 2016
- Harvey & Clarke, removed by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvey & Clarke in May 2015
- National Register of Historic Places featured properties and districts created 2008-08-26 deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/National Register of Historic Places featured properties and districts (2nd nomination) of 16 November 2014
- In three removals upon AFD, I was indifferent or supported deletion:
- List of delisted National Register of Historic Places properties, created 2008-10-27, which turned out to be overly large topic. I participated extensively in the wp:NRHP project instead recording delisted properties within the geographic-based lists of properties. Deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of delisted National Register of Historic Places properties of 9 August 2015. Rather than delete it I might have preferred to rename and reduce it to accomplish just one of its purposes: itemizing the relatively few demotions of the National Historic Landmarks, which is very feasible and remains a worthwhile/needed topic.
- Sons of Norway Building (Minneapolis, Minnesota) created 2012-08-03, deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sons of Norway Building (Minneapolis, Minnesota) of 7 August 2012. Fine, not as notable as it appeared at first to be, not a historic building. Maybe it should be covered at, and redirected to Sons of Norway, per a suggestion at AFD.
- Curry House (Fort Adams, Mississippi), created 2010-04-19, a HABS-listed building that turned out to have been demolished, was never NRHP-listed, and was deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Curry House (Fort Adams, Mississippi) of 3 March 2013. I mildly preferred to Keep it but was okay with it being Deleted.
- And there was also one I wanted deleted (which didn't go to AFD):
- Wales House (Minneapolis, Minnesota) • (Deleted) || 2011-02-19 || effectively a user request that turned out not to be a non-notable (a b&b i think) as covered here, i agreed to its deletion, then further I accidentally re-created it and so i requested re-deletion.
For comparison, there were more (20-30? at least more than 10), AFDs that tested articles I had created but failed. These resulted in the article being kept. I don't know how to generate a definitive list of these.
The other deletions were technical in nature, like by my request because of a typo in the article name.
The User:Doncram/Articles1 page includes all 8,968 articles created by me. Sort by the "Type" column to put the "Deleted" items together, scroll down to those, and then examine why each one was deleted, based on my comments given (and your own analysis of article history if you like). There were 34 deleted including technical deletions. Only 6 were removals by AFD of articles I had put into mainspace and meant for them to stay (these are the 6 described above).
If that identifies all deletions by AFD, what about any other articles deleted by PROD or by SPEEDY? The Articles1 list already covers SPEEDY deletions requested by me due to a typo, and the like. Were there any others? Yes, there were some deleted by PROD or SPEEDY which were recreated/restored because the deletion was incorrect. And there was one deleted by SPEEDY which went to deletion review, which found that the reason given for deletion (copyright vio), was invalid, which I did not choose to recreate although the topic was/is valid.
What about any articles drafted by me, submitted to AFC, and declined? There have been some, but they simply were not deletions. Some of these were tough/marginal topics in various areas that were discussed as possibly useful and needed articles, in AFDs. It sometimes is helpful in an AFD to suggest the creation of a related-but-different article, and in some cases I drafted one. One or two were cases where I tried to create an article that had been requested. For any that I submitted and were declined, I don't feel bad at all, and the decline does not indicate anything about my judgment of when articles are really clearly ready for mainspace. I was taking a shot at developing something, often in an unfamiliar area, within the AFC venue knowing that there would be a review, and that left the article promotion decision to someone else. I did not promote them myself.
about list of all articles created
editA total of 9,368 articles were created by me
Note on Xtools report
editThe list of articles created by me was copy-pasted from an Xtools report on new articles and then edited to display as a table. The report itself is available only sporadically (maybe the server is overloaded sometimes, especially for larger reports?). Note: there were lots of redirects in mainspace created by Doncram in mainspace that are deliberately omitted from the report, by choosing the option to exclude redirects. However, the Xtools report nonetheless includes some redirects. These seem to be the few that were later deleted, or perhaps any that were further edited after a redirect was first set up? Anyhow the following does include some redirects. This Xtools call (takes long to run) should get all my articles. (Modify call http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pages/?user=Doncram&lang=en&wiki=wikipedia&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects&limit=10000 to get less.)(And http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools-articleinfo/ is a link to related reports at Xtools.)
at time of main Xtools report, articles in progress included
edit- Some drafts that I might or might not want to return to
- The Martin Group, created at Draft:The Martin Group up to this version, in response to an apparent need for such an article within AFD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Travers Collins & Company. I'm not sure why, but after the AFD closed "no consensus", the Travers Collins & Company article was moved to "The Martin Group", by editor CorporateM, who then copy-pasted Draft:The Martin Group to it, instead of moving it.
- Some in progress when Xtools report run, or started after:
- Draft:Chief Actuary / Chief Actuary, motivated by AFD on Manning Clark
- Draft:PPM America, Inc. / PPM America, Inc. (and PPM America redirect), motivated by AFD on Manning Clark
- Draft:List of hotels in Andorra / List of hotels in Andorra (accepted at AFC), motivated by AFD on Hotel Kandahar
- Draft:The Middletown Press / The Middletown Press (and Middletown Press redirect), noticed that it is missing at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ashley Golebiewski (2nd nomination), among other redlinks at List of newspapers in Connecticut
- Draft:List of schools and lineages of Tibetan Buddhism motivated by AFD on Aro gTer, probably not going to become an article
- On Dicte (TV series), my submitted draft was denied at AFC and was eventually deleted as outcome of an MFD, relating to fact another editor separately created an article on the topic, not seeing my draft. So it could have been omitted from the Xtools report. But after a history merge, it actually now shows me as creator, in the Xtools report.
- Draft:List of law firms in Uganda / List of law firms in Uganda, motivated by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birungyi Barata
- Draft:Chambers and Partners / Chambers and Partners, motivated by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Birungyi Barata
- Draft:Birungyi Barata may re-start there, using copy of deleted article, copy now at User:Doncram/Birungyi Barata
- Pioneer Bridge Co., created by me 3 October 2012, was maybe going to be deleted by prod, 2/2015; there was redirect Pioneer Bridge Company; I saved copy at User:Doncram/PioneerBridgeCompany.
- There was Draft:List of named corners of the Snaefell Mountain Course. See Talk:Windy Corner, Isle of Man#Merger implementation. It was promoted to mainspace List of named corners of the Snaefell Mountain Course.
Architect, builders, engineers list
editThis is a side analysis to check if the xtools report of created articles misses any. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Architects2009a is my original work list of all 907 architects, builders, engineers having 5 or more works listed in the NRHP, per NRIS at the time. I developed articles for all missing ones, probably 80 percent. Currently (4/8/2016) there are two redlinks:
- Sandy Reed, which was removed by PROD,
- Harvey & Clarke, removed by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Harvey & Clarke in May 2015
(And also there is redlink Santa Fe style associated with Isaac Hamilton Rapp which never had an article created.)
I am pretty sure the Harvey & Clarke firm is wikipedia-notable, i.e. the AFD outcome seems wrong, but it can be recreated.
I would have that both of the deleted articles were created by me, so should appear in the xtools list of articles created by me....and I see there is the redlink for Harvey & Clarke in the list, so marking it as deleted-contested by me now, but I do not see a Sandy Reed. But okay, it's possible that someone else created Sandy Reed. An admin could confirm that.
Xtools update April 2016
editThis provides audit trail for the update of my articles created, using Xtools' report limited to the last 100 articles created by me. And then edited to add comments on apparent/probable reasons for any deletions. This was used to update User:Doncram/Articles1. The row numbers are manually added by me and are negatives to put into same reverse sequence as the xtools-enumerated list from #1 to #9344 in the 2015 xtools report.
| Article name | Date created | Note | Type' | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -24 | Ways Mils | 2016-04-06 | Deletion requested: Typo want 2 Ls not 1 | Deleted |
| -23 | List of courthouses in the United States | 2016-03-28 | Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of courthouse buildings in the United States: A | Deleted (contested by me) |
| -22 | List of cities and towns | 2016-03-16 | • | • |
| -21 | Masjid An-Noor | 2015-10-08 | • | • |
| -20 | Woman of the Year (disambiguation) | 2015-09-30 | • | • |
| -19 | User sandbox:Doncram/sandbox15 | 2015-09-15 | Userpage, no doubt self-requested | Deleted |
| -18 | Captain | 2015-08-30 | • | • |
| -17 | General Assembly (disambiguation) | 2015-08-30 | • | • |
| -16 | Northern long-eared bat | 2015-08-28 | • | • |
| -15 | Büch (surname) | 2015-08-16 | Self-requested, typo? | Deleted |
| -14 | Centennial | 2015-08-07 | • | • |
| -13 | A Night with Janis Joplin | 2015-08-06 | • | • |
| -12 | Demirköy | 2015-08-03 | • | • |
| -11 | Grand Central Hotel (disambiguation) | 2015-07-23 | • | • |
| -10 | William John Wayne | 2015-07-17 | Self-requested, typo? | Deleted |
| -9 | An American Mosque (film) | 2015-07-12 | • | • |
| -8 | United States presidential election, 2016/FEC filers | • | Self-requested, didn't want "/"? [I explain further in the Articles1 version] | Deleted |
| -7 | Rosenblum (disambiguation) | 2015-06-30 | Not needed as redirect target not a dab | Deleted |
| -6 | Sarawak's Heroes Mausoleum | 2015-05-28 | Redirect to page deleted by Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sibu Town Mosque | Deleted |
| -5 | Bud Otis | 2015-05-01 | • | • |
| -4 | List of named corners in the Snaeffel Mountain Course | 2015-04-13 | Self-request: typo needs 1 f and 2 Ls | Deleted |
| -3 | Tygerberg Zoo | 2015-03-30 | • | • |
| -2 | List of named corners of the Snaefell Mountain Course | 2015-02-24 | Did I think there was a typo? Needed to make way? | Deleted |
| -1 | List of hotels in Andorra | 2015-01-27 | • | • |
| 1 | List of books about the September 11 attacks | 2015-01-05 | • | • |