MrErnie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 3:13 pm
Jim wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 1:47 pm
MrErnie wrote: ↑Fri Apr 08, 2022 12:26 pm
I would nominate a few but I don't want the WMF to ban me for harassment.
Which ones would you nominate?
I would start with the ones I linked that are languishing in user space, untouched for almost 3 years now. The 4 articles regarding lesbians during a phase of Spanish government should be combined into one article titled more appropriately, as they all share much of the same content.
There a bunch of articles on women's national teams where the national team in question has never played a game...
Let's start with some low hanging fruit:
Cameroonian_Sports_Federation_for_the_Physically_Disabled (T-H-L)
Malaysia_national_cerebral_palsy_football_team (T-H-L)
Oman_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics (T-H-L)
Myanmar_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics (T-H-L)
In fact, all of the ${Country}_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics articles should likely be folded into a single article.
Iran_women's_national_sitting_volleyball_team (T-H-L)
Russia_women's_national_goalball_team (T-H-L) is especially funny.
Whole sections of crap like
Regional championships
The team competes in the IBSA Europe goalball region. Groups A and C are held one year, and Group B the following year. Strong teams move towards Group A.[citation needed]
2007 Antalya
The team competed at the 2007 IBSA Goalball European Championships, hosted by the Turkish Blind Sports Federation, in Antalya, Turkey with 11 teams contesting the women's competition. The team finished last.[9] This was their debut, with a men's team having played at major international tournaments.[8]
2009 Munich (Group A)
Munich, Germany hosted the 2009 European Championships with eleven teams taking part. The team finished the event in eighth place.[10]
2013 Konya (Group A)
The team competed at the 2013 IBSA Goalball European Championships, Group A, from 1 to 11 November 2013, at Konya, Turkey, where they finished first.[11]
2015 Kaunas (Group A)
The team competed in the 2015 IBSA Goalball European A Championships in Kaunas, Lithuania. They lost the gold medal game to Turkey, 0:5.[7]
2017 Pajulahti (Group A)
The team competed in the 2017 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 15 to 23 September 2017, at Pajulahti, Nastola, Finland. First in Pool Y, in the gold medal match, they beat Turkey, 6:3.[7]
2019 Rostock (Group A)
The team competed in the 2019 IBSA Goalball European A Championships from 5 to 14 October 2019, in Rostock, Germany. Playing in Pool X, they placed first in the pool, and fifth in the final standings.[7]
Athletes included: Irina Arestova (Krasnodar Territory), Elizaveta Kemesheva (Vologda Region), Natalya Makoveeva (Tula Region), Anastasiia Mazur (Moscow Region/Kaluga Region), Yuliya Mikhailova (Kaluga Region), and Anna Shevchenko (Vologda Region). Their coach was Ilkam Nabiev.[12]
which are then replicated in a table below.
The league/series "IBSA Goalball European Championships" is a redlink as are all of the player links.
There are slews of articles on 'goalball', each article differentiated by country, gender and age group.
All of these articles should be merged into a single article.
Next up: "Floorball".
No, really.
Rather. Rinse. Repeat.
Multitudinous articles differentiating based on Country, Gender and Age Group.
All of these articles could be folded into a single article, or, better yet, a new article entitled "Laura Hale's garbage sport combinatoric expansion for pay".
Next up: Cerebral Palsy Football
Great_Britain_national_cerebral_palsy_football_team (T-H-L)
Yes, it's all the same as above,
${Country}_national_cerebral_palsy_football_team
Next up: ${Country}_at_the_2016_Summer_Paralympics
As above, merge them all into a single article
Next up: Softball
Representative article
Venezuela_men's_junior_national_softball_team (T-H-L)
More of the ${Country}_${Gender}_${AgeGroup}_national_softball_team combinatorics.
Almost all articles are still stubs after 8 years.
Merge into one or several (small number) articles or delete them all (best bet)
Next up: Inline Hockey Teams.
Representative article
Namibia_women's_national_inline_hockey_team (T-H-L)
More of the ${Country}_${Gender}_national_${Sport}_team bullshit.
Merge into one article
Next up: Several hundred stub BLPs that haven't been touched in 8 years.
Representative article
Juan_José_Lara_Ortiz (T-H-L)
Juan José Lara Ortiz
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lara and the second or maternal family name is Ortiz.
Juan José Lara Ortiz
Juan Jose Lara Ortiz (born November 30, 1965, in Sevilla) is a wheelchair basketball athlete from Spain. He has a physical disability: he is 1 point wheelchair basketball player. He played wheelchair basketball at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. His team was fourth.[1]
References
Sports portal
"Biografías" (in Spanish). Spain: Comité Paralímpico Español. 2012. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
That's the entire article.
Notice the various interesting grammar issues.
Notice that she couldn't even get the name correct in all three places.
Most of the BLPs are that short and that thinly sourced and were created with one purpose, to support Laura Hale's HOPAU paid gig by making the various team disability sports articles seem less thin.
Mass AfD them and let anyone who objects pick out those that should stay and make their case.
Next up: ${Country}_at_the_${Year}_${Season}_Paralympics
Representative article
Spain_at_the_1980_Summer_Paralympics (T-H-L)
Best, merge them all into a single article or, perhaps by ${Year} at worst.
Next up: Abortion_in_${State/Territory}
Representative article
Abortion_in_American_Samoa (T-H-L)
Merge into a table in an article Abortion in the US per state....
Next up: Paralympic classification articles
Representative article
PR1_W1x (T-H-L)
Copy paste articles that all contain the same basic prose and use the same references.
Merge into a single article with tables.
In summary, at least 90% of the articles created by Laura Hale were obviously made with the specific intent to bump up article count to meet production goals and/or productivity perceptions that she had committed to with HOPAU.
All of the articles in the categories listed above should be looked up with extreme suspicion and moved to delete or merge.
It's a giant cesspit. All of it.
