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What's the minimum size of towns/villages/neighbourhoods that ram-bot goes down to?
I ask as there's been some discussion of whether we should have individual articles on topics that effect only a few people (eg obscure albums, obscure people, etc), and was wondering if we should take a similar approach to obscure villages.
I was also wondering if you'd fixed the St. Albans, Maine -> Saint Albans, Maine bug/feature/issue I mentioned above.
Thanks. Martin 16:48 12 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- The minimum size is 0 inhabitants and rightly so. There are plenty of historically significant places where no-one officially lives but many people either work, recreate or visit due to some site of interest in them. Many mining operations, for example, are US Census places but no-one lives there. Obscurity should not really be that important of a criterion for us including things - the only thing that should matter is the confirmability of information presented in the article. That does severely limit the amount of obscure material we have but does allow some obscure stuff that can be confirmed (such as anything the Rambot does). --mav
- Seems like they might stand some editing though - the auto-generated demographics section is going to be of limited interest for a place with only one occupant... ;-) Is there anyway I could get a complete list of ram-bot articles with, say, ten or fewer people? I've put the ones I've found on List of places with less than ten people. Martin
I was not aware of the St. Albans problem, however, I do know that I fixed the problem of a redirect (at least I think so!). I'll make sure that I recheck it, but I am sure I don't overwrite it anymore. -- RM