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It would be helpful if the links on this page included, in parentheses, the rating or featured article status of the requested articles. (since recording a featured article is good, and recording a requested article is good, but recording a featured and requested article is even better, no? 24.90.17.134 06:02, 1 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2013-09-08 Notice that many requests were put in by now retired user GVnayR on what some would call trivial articles about historic video games and women's clothing. Should be cleaned up, there's probably a faster way than clicking on all 200+ requests. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.244.240 (talk) 07:58, 8 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Can it be removed? I was first under the impression that these were requests for audio-versions of Talk-pages. Jontajonta (talk) 00:06, 22 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think that it links to the Talk-pages because that is where the request is placed. --Galenanderson (talk) 07:18, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Talk: iCarly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.29.59.8 (talk) 22:08, 26 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Previously, an IP address user complained that there were an excessive number of minor articles by requested by User:GVnayR. User:C.Fred mentioned that "If the requests need trimmed, it needs done on a case-by-case basis."
I wrote a script with pywikibot to scan for articles contributed by GVnayR and articles that are stubs (including ones not requested by GVnayR). Below are the results.
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I've looked through most of the articles in the list individually, and it seems most of the stub articles should probably be removed (they're too short to be meaningfully recorded, and would likely change a lot before they eventually become long enough). Some of the articles requested by GVnayR are definitely worth keeping (e.g. Great Recession, McDonald's, and Walmart). I've tried to place them in a separate list. This is obviously somewhat subjective, so to mitigate this I've tried to be as generous as possible (keeping 2/3 of the articles in question). I looked for articles that had quite a few major issues (Grand River land dispute), were of niche interest (Dirty Harry (1990 video game)), were in a format that would be painful to record (EarthBound is a disambiguation page), etc. Most of the old video-game pages are in the blacklist. In addition, some of GVnayR's articles are extremely short despite not being in any stub categories (Nanticoke Refinery).
Let me know if there are any articles are blacklisted that shouldn't be. Once there's consensus on which particular pages should be removed, I can remove them in an automated fashion with pywikibot. AllenZh (talk) 21:27, 8 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]
How is the best way to go about requesting a new spoken article that will get the most attention in hopes someone will create one? The written article in question already has a spoken article but it's from 2010, so obviously the article in question has changed a lot since then. As such I don't think it would fall under a spoken article request, as this seems to be for pages that don't already have a spoken version (although I may be wrong here so clarification would be helpful). Also, the original uploader has been inactive on Wikipedia and other related projects for years, so I can't ask them to make a new version, nor do I think I'm comfortable recording myself. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. Helper201 (talk) 04:53, 12 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
