User:Mill 1/DOY trimming and review

Sample data unqualified DOY entries edit

In the table below articles are listed that are currently present in WP:DAYS. The entries are an excerpt of data in this file and link to unreferenced and unnotable articles. Per row you see the DOY page in which the entry exists, the referenced article and some of its properties. Only January data is shown. I think that we can agree that all of them are absolute crap do not qualify for DOY-listing based on verifiability and/or notability (people). The challenge is to come up with a rule set to identify more of them. What should be the lower limit of article size? Are stubs allowed? Should size limits vary per century?
The entries in the table meet the conditions of the following rule set:

  • Content size of the article[1] < 1,500 characters
  • AND The number of references[2] = 0

This Excel file contains more entries potentially unqualified for DOY for you to play with.

Existing entries listing unreferenced and very small articles, sorted on content size [1]
DOY Section Year Article Article size [3] Content size[1] Number of refs [2] Nr of external links Is stub Infobox size [4] Nr of (sub) sections Nr of images Nr of cate- gories Flagged citation and verifiability problems
January 25 Births 1958 Franco Pancheri 2155 232 0 0 Yes 1320 2 0 15  
January 4 Births 1932 Roman Personov 1265 277 0 0 No 776 0 1 4 {{Unreferenced}}
January 3 Births 1984 Miloš Juhász 2121 285 0 1 Yes 1495 2 0 8  
January 19 Births 1986 Oleksandr Miroshnychenko 2292 326 0 1 Yes 1379 1 0 13  
January 28 Births 1992 Andrei Savchenko 1308 340 0 1 Yes 725 1 0 5  
January 19 Births 1985 Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Nikulin 2110 356 0 1 Yes 1282 1 0 9  
January 11 Births 1965 Aleksey Zhukov 2647 370 0 1 Yes 1600 1 0 16  
January 17 Births 1964 John Schuster 3166 371 0 1 No 1813 2 0 18 {{BLP unsourced}}
January 5 Deaths 1994 Elmar Lipping 763 405 0 0 Yes 0 0 0 7 {{Unreferenced}}
January 14 Deaths 1972 Horst Assmy 2477 440 0 2 Yes 1484 1 1 13  
January 6 Births 1933 Emil Steinberger (actor) 711 471 0 2 Yes 0 1 1 5  
January 14 Births 1869 Robert Fournier-Sarlovèze 1765 478 0 1 Yes 827 1 2 8  
January 22 Births 1925 Johnny Bucha 2175 490 0 0 Yes 816 1 1 19  
January 8 Births 1991 Emiliano Tabone 875 495 0 1 Yes 0 2 0 8  
January 17 Births 1980 Modestas Stonys 2912 541 0 2 Yes 1643 1 0 18  
January 13 Births 1805 Thomas Dyer 1354 550 0 2 Yes 547 1 1 4 {{Unreferenced}}
January 9 Births 1940 Barbara Buczek 753 557 0 1 Yes 0 2 0 4 {{No footnotes}}
January 6 Births 1899 Alphonse Castex 973 574 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 7  
January 7 Births 1860 Emanuil Manolov 843 601 0 0 Yes 0 0 0 5 {{Unreferenced}}
January 8 Births 1984 Jeon Ji-ae 1119 607 0 1 Yes 204 2 0 5 {{BLP sources}}
January 22 Deaths 1975 Andrew George Burry 811 607 0 0 Yes 0 0 0 4 {{Unreferenced}}
January 15 Births 1985 Enrico Patrizio 2411 608 0 1 No 1625 2 0 4  
January 3 Births 1778 Antoni Melchior Fijałkowski 1027 621 0 0 Yes 0 1 1 9 {{Unreferenced}}
January 22 Births 1952 Ramón Avilés 1745 632 0 0 Yes 668 1 0 9  
January 22 Deaths 1750 Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl 910 645 0 1 No 0 1 0 6  
January 21 Births 1879 Joseph Roffo 1068 670 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 7  
January 17 Births 1990 Santiago Tréllez 3625 684 0 3 Yes 1849 3 1 24  
January 7 Births 1976 Tomas Ražanauskas 4246 708 0 1 Yes 2331 2 1 29  
January 21 Births 1881 Ernst Fast 1233 715 0 0 Yes 0 0 1 10 {{Refimprove}}
January 16 Births 1981 Paul Rofe (cricketer) 1131 741 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 8  
January 8 Births 1909 Nikolaos Platon 2021 743 0 0 Yes 794 0 0 8 {{Unreferenced}}
January 14 Births 1819 Dimitrie Bolintineanu 1139 747 0 0 No 0 1 1 9 {{Unreferenced}}
January 31 Births 1984 Alessandro Zanni 1970 762 0 0 No 878 2 0 7 {{BLP unsourced}}
January 16 Deaths 1961 Max Schöne 1197 766 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 9  
January 7 Births 1980 Campbell Johnstone 2883 770 0 2 No 1130 2 0 19  
January 15 Deaths 1937 Anton Holban 1066 778 0 1 Yes 0 3 1 7  
January 5 Births 1679 Pietro Filippo Scarlatti 1278 807 0 0 Yes 0 0 0 10 {{Unreferenced}}
January 30 Births 1972 Jill McGill 3205 812 0 2 Yes 2006 2 1 9  
January 24 Births 1934 Stanisław Grochowiak 1049 813 0 1 Yes 0 2 1 5 {{Unreferenced}}
January 14 Deaths 1926 August Sedláček 1051 816 0 1 Yes 0 2 1 5  
January 28 Births 1984 Ben Clucas 2550 826 0 2 Yes 893 2 1 16  
January 11 Births 1913 Karl Stegger 1476 856 0 1 Yes 379 2 0 5  
January 11 Births 1915 Luise Krüger 1360 856 0 0 Yes 0 0 0 9 {{Unreferenced}}
January 6 Deaths 1905 George Van Cleaf 2404 858 0 1 Yes 990 1 0 10  
January 15 Births 1979 Michalis Morfis 2277 864 0 2 Yes 1001 3 1 10  
January 21 Births 1980 Brie Rippner 2382 880 0 2 Yes 1266 3 0 5  
January 16 Births 1972 Yuri Alekseevich Drozdov 3556 885 0 1 Yes 1853 1 1 18  
January 7 Births 1984 Diego Balbinot 3657 889 0 5 Yes 1756 4 1 21  
January 6 Births 1977 Shane Rigon 2661 894 0 1 Yes 1240 2 0 10  
January 20 Births 1978 Allan Søgaard 1711 897 0 2 Yes 548 2 0 6  
January 31 Births 1981 Mark Cameron (cricketer) 3346 899 0 2 Yes 2124 2 0 5  
January 7 Births 1885 Edwin Swatek 2516 902 0 1 Yes 947 2 0 11  
January 4 Births 1664 Lars Roberg 1221 908 0 0 Yes 0 0 1 6 {{Unreferenced}}
January 6 Births 1958 Margus Hanson 1178 909 0 0 Yes 0 2 1 6 {{One source}}
January 21 Deaths 1965 Gwynne Evans 2829 924 0 1 Yes 1191 2 0 11  
January 8 Deaths 1883 Miska Magyarics 1175 928 0 0 No 0 2 0 6  
January 16 Births 1880 Samuel Jones (athlete) 1366 944 0 1 Yes 0 1 1 7  
January 11 Deaths 1958 Alec Rowley 1397 970 0 3 Yes 0 2 0 10  
January 23 Births 1964 Mario Roberge 1600 973 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 14  
January 13 Deaths 1860 William Mason (U.S. politician) 1964 978 0 1 Yes 538 1 0 7  
January 18 Births 1966 Kazufumi Miyazawa 1174 985 0 2 No 0 1 1 4 {{BLP sources}}
January 18 Births 1944 Kei Ogura 1155 986 0 1 Yes 0 4 0 3  
January 9 Deaths 1941 Dimitrios Golemis 2295 1024 0 0 Yes 740 1 1 9  
January 15 Births 1885 Grover Lowdermilk 2906 1028 0 2 Yes 1008 3 1 20  
January 9 Deaths 1856 Neophytos Vamvas 1410 1041 0 0 No 0 1 1 8 {{Unreferenced}}
January 21 Births 1878 Vahan Tekeyan 2447 1068 0 0 Yes 1111 2 1 6  
January 20 Births 1965 Anton Weissenbacher 2818 1088 0 2 Yes 1212 3 0 10 {{BLP sources}}
January 16 Births 1920 Alberto Crespo 2126 1116 0 0 Yes 620 1 0 7 {{Unreferenced}}
January 8 Deaths 1853 Mihály Bertalanits 1732 1120 0 0 No 322 2 0 6 {{No footnotes}}
January 14 Deaths 2007 Vassilis Photopoulos 1486 1121 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 9  
January 21 Births 1976 Patrick de Lange 1502 1132 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 7  
January 7 Deaths 1927 Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos 1457 1134 0 0 Yes 0 2 1 6  
January 1 Births 1860 Jan Vilímek 1549 1146 0 1 Yes 0 1 4 9  
January 5 Births 1895 Alberto Massimino 1421 1148 0 2 No 0 2 0 8  
January 13 Births 1892 Ermanno Aebi 2162 1155 0 1 No 664 4 0 7 {{Refimprove}}
January 12 Births 1912 Richard Kuremaa 3028 1158 0 0 No 1637 2 0 5 {{Unreferenced}}
January 16 Deaths 1960 Arthur Darby 1682 1167 0 2 Yes 0 1 0 9  
January 23 Births 1915 Herma Bauma 1880 1184 0 1 Yes 0 1 0 12 {{Unreferenced}}
January 18 Births 1898 Albert Kivikas 2553 1208 0 0 Yes 680 1 2 13  
January 31 Births 1975 Fred Coleman 2995 1212 0 4 Yes 935 1 0 19 {{No footnotes}}
January 13 Births 1921 Dachine Rainer 1791 1239 0 0 Yes 0 1 0 13  
January 31 Births 1934 Bob Turner (ice hockey) 2307 1244 0 2 No 550 2 1 12  
January 10 Births 1986 Hideaki Ikematsu 2352 1255 0 2 Yes 651 3 0 10  
January 11 Births 1642 Johann Friedrich Alberti 1573 1258 0 3 No 0 2 0 7  
January 14 Births 1965 Marc Delissen 2590 1268 0 1 No 566 1 0 14  
January 19 Deaths 2001 Dario Vittori 2060 1269 0 2 Yes 319 2 0 9 {{Cite check}}
January 8 Deaths 1970 Georges Guibourg 1572 1277 0 0 No 0 0 0 7 {{Unreferenced}}
January 6 Deaths 1922 Jakob Rosanes 2816 1278 0 2 Yes 689 2 1 20  
January 10 Deaths 1992 Roberto Bonomi 2260 1288 0 0 Yes 591 1 0 7 {{Unreferenced}}
January 24 Births 1895 Eugen Roth 1589 1310 0 3 Yes 0 3 1 5  
January 21 Deaths 2005 Kaljo Raid 1675 1324 0 2 No 0 1 0 9  
January 31 Deaths 1987 Yves Allégret 1544 1330 0 1 Yes 0 2 0 4  
January 31 Deaths 1987 Yves Allégret 1544 1330 0 1 Yes 0 2 0 4  
January 21 Deaths 2009 Krista Kilvet 1699 1359 0 4 No 0 1 0 9 {{Citation style}}
January 16 Births 1895 Evripidis Bakirtzis 1792 1362 0 0 Yes 0 0 2 9 {{Unreferenced}}
January 21 Births 1971 Sergey Klevchenya 3045 1391 0 1 Yes 909 1 1 14  
January 1 Births 1946 Carl B. Hamilton 3584 1392 0 2 No 1802 1 1 9  
January 1 Births 1920 Osvaldo Cavandoli 1619 1396 0 0 Yes 0 1 1 4 {{Unreferenced}}
January 9 Births 1972 Jay Powell 3424 1416 0 2 Yes 962 1 0 22  
January 3 Births 1912 Renaude Lapointe 2802 1436 0 2 No 980 1 0 8  
January 1 Births 1927 Calum MacKay 2472 1441 0 1 No 463 3 0 14  
January 25 Births 1974 Robert Budreau 1565 1446 0 2 No 0 2 0 3 {{BLP sources}}
January 10 Births 1891 Heinrich Behmann 2037 1451 0 3 Yes 0 1 1 12  
January 11 Births 1845 Albert Victor Bäcklund 2864 1455 0 3 No 956 2 1 10  
January 14 Births 1705 Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier 1785 1456 0 1 Yes 0 1 2 5 {{Unreferenced}}
January 17 Births 1971 Giorgos Balogiannis 3187 1459 0 2 No 1390 3 0 9  
January 21 Births 1978 Bryan Gilmore 2515 1463 0 2 No 622 7 0 10  
January 3 Births 1719 Francisco José Freire 1745 1492 0 0 No 0 1 0 6  
January 25 Births 1901 Martín de Álzaga (racing driver) 1831 1499 0 1 Yes 0 2 0 7  
  1. ^ a b c Size of the actual content of the article. This is number of characters in the wikitext IN BETWEEN the infobox and the listed categories. Empty infobox fields and extensive category listing make an article appear bigger than it actually is (in the wiki mark up).
  2. ^ a b This is the sum of inline citations and general references, (usually) found in section References.
  3. ^ Total number of characters of the wikitext, including infobox, categories etc.
  4. ^ Size of the infobox in number of characters. 0 means no infobox present.