User:Rividian

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I just wrote my first essay: User:Rividian/Journalistic vs. Encyclopedic writing

[edit] Most fans

Most Wikipedians don't like reading articles that tell us what "most fans" supposedly think, since "most fans" conveniently seem to agree with the "one fan" who added that sentence to the article.

Here are the estimated number of articles (as of April 2008) which purport to tell us what some, most, or all fans point out, argue or claim.

1. "many fans" - 3,420
2. "some fans" - 1,919
3. "most fans" - 497
4. "other fans" - 284
5. "fans believe" - 259
6. "all fans" - 98
7. "fans claim" - 85
8. "few fans" - 70
9. "fans argue" - 34
10. "fans point out" - 20

Some other important statistics that most fans agree are important:

• "some commentators" have opinions on 1,013 Wikipedia articles, proving that some commentators are almost as opinionated as some fans, but not quite.
• It should be pointed out that 182 articles feel the need to tell us what "should be pointed out".
• Others argue even more than fans argue - 569 times to 34 times!