Portal talk:Middle-earth/Random-article
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WTF! We have 2,474 articles about Middle Earth?! --Uncle Ed 16:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
Is there some reason Eye of Terror came up as a random Tolkien article? It doesn't appear to have anything to do with the legendarium. --Fang Aili talk 20:13, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
- Dunno. Fairly common for articles to change or sections to be removed. At some point it was linked to Tolkien pages. Probably referencing the Eye of Sauron. I removed it from the list. --CBD 13:52, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
- 2,474 articles? Not really! :-) Lots of these are redirects to lists or sections. It is debatable exactly what should be on this random list. If you put everything, then you get lots of the redirects to List of Hobbits, but you also get ones like Aeglos. It would be useful at some point to come up with a list of articles separate from the redirects, but that number would be out-of-date pretty soon as more merging takes place. Carcharoth 22:35, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
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- Further to the above 2,474 figure, the best way to get an idea of the real figure is to look at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Tolkien articles by quality statistics. That shouldn't include redirects (which should have had the project tag removed from their talk pages). The total there is 1137, but that still includes lots of unassessed and low-importance articles that will eventually be merged into lists. The real figure of meaningful articles is probably the sum total of the top, high and mid-importance categories, which at the time of writing is 21 + 126 + 252 = 399 articles. These aren't all about Middle-earth of course, as many are about real-world stuff inspired by Middle-earth, and about J. R. R. Tolkien himself. Carcharoth 21:48, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
FuryBand came up as the random link today. It was A7/G11 speedied in February. It's a computer game. --Fang Aili talk 21:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
- I removed that and nine other dead links from the list. --CBD 14:43, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
