Out of curiosity, I took a look at the Eevee article history: more than a little odd in places. It started out as a fancruft stub 'article' about the Pokémon whatever-it-is back in 2003, by 2005 had transmuted into this table based fancruft monstrosity
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... d=14579355 (which incidentally tells the reader amongst other things that Eevee is "extremely unique" as if there any other kind of uniqueness), and then reverted to something which actually bore a vague resemblance to encyclopaedic content - at least until you read it. By July 2007 common sense seems to have prevailed, and the article was replaced by a redirect to 'List of Pokémon (121-140)' (fortunately now also a redirect). So far so bog-standard for content of marginal-at-best merit. Except that some bright spark IP contributor decided to hijack the redirect, and convert it into an article (in mangled English) about a '4-piece Filipino rock group'. Needless to say an edit war ensued, the final result of which seems to be that the band are now covered (in something closer to a half-decent stub, by the usual mediocre Wikipedia obscure band coverage standards) as
Eevee (band) (T-H-L).
Come October 2010 though the redirect was an article again - all done in one fell swoop by a newish contributor (
GS Sentret (T-C-L)), who seems to have grasped all the complexities of Wiki formatting in no time at all: or more likely, one might well suspect, was entirely familiar with it under another account name.
Another attempt at a redirect in 2015 was to no avail, and we now can see the end result - an article which tells us that this creature-not-a-rock-band is " feline-like" while citing no source, rather than as previously claiming that it was some sort of fox while not citing a source either. It seems from what little sense I can make of the cruft that this non-Filipino-cat-fox-thing's most distinguishing characteristic is its ability to rapidly evolve into something else entirely, and I can't help noting that the same can be said of the article. And I'm sure I'm not the first to suggest that such structural instability, while it may be advantageous to doe-eyed-bushy-tailed rabbit-eared carnivores, isn't generally the sign of good encyclopaedic coverage. If there is a real topic, and real sources that actually tell us about the topic in any significant detail, the required article structure should be readily apparent, and a reader who knows nothing about this mutable-thing beforehand should stand a fighting chance of actually understanding more afterwards. Something the present article singularly fails to do, as it mentions other Pokémon characters ('Bill', 'May', 'Ash') without the slightest explanation of who they are, and tells us that one of them (May) took an Eevee to "Route 217" in order to evolve, without the slightest explanation of why this 'route' is of any significance. This isn't just fancruft, it is garbled factoid-fancruft of the worst kind. And it should be noted, now a darned sight less readable than GS Sentret's October 2010 version (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... =390993971). So much for evolution...
