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And any combination of the above.
There is never any suggestion of what the ideal situation should be – How many chemists we should cover? Should we delete some of our coverage of Britney Spears? And of course never any offer to leap into the breach and help. (One early example says no-one will read
Apart from the logical fallacy (assuming that because X is better covered than Y, Y is badly covered), these claims are often – as I like to say – ''plain wrong''.
In the sections below references to "now" or "currently" should reflect the numbers (more or less) at the time of reading.
==Wikipedia has more information on ''Pokémon'' than on the Bible.==
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* Source: [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1402278002-VnQc7BHJc54ytGL3s4L2SA ''The New York Times'']
* Verdict: Apparently true at the time (January 2011), not true now.
* Reason: ''The Simpsons'' characters are easy to write about. All 45 articles have existed for years. Moreover, they are easier to categorise. At the time of writing we have 493,560 articles about writers, far more than all our fictional character articles. Note however that most, if not all, of the items that have been added to the writers category since, already existed either on English WP, or Spanish WP. (Thanks to [[User:Rosiestep]] for translation.)
"Is a category with five Mexican feminist writers impressive, or embarrassing when compared with the 45 articles on characters in ''The Simpsons''? "{{Break}}
Note the MFW's now number {{PAGESINCATEGORY:Mexican feminist writers}}, while the
Pop quiz: name as many Mexican feminist writers as you can. Name as many ''Simpsons'' characters as you can.
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* Verdict: False, assuming a "zillion" is greater than 1/8
* Reason: We have 822 members of [[:Category:21st-century women writers]] and 733 living or recently dead members of [[:Category:20th-century women writers]] (including 4 levels of sub-cats) – so some 1555 entries – these categories don't tell the whole story, though, taking out duplicates and adding in other women writers who lived past the year 2000 (for example [[Delia Sherman]]) and are not in these categories we get 11,620. [[List of pornographic actresses by decade]] lists 30 actresses in the 2000s and 18 in the 2010s, giving a total of 48 articles, however this list was eviscerated recently. The entire category [[:Category:Pornographic film actors]], including subcategories to a depth of 4 has only 1409 articles about actors (male and female), of whom at most 1353 were alive during the 21st century. Even ignoring the "zillion" and counting male pornographic actors (and not just "stars") we have eight times more 21st century women writers than 21st century porn stars
==At one point there were articles on '''every''' episode of Star Trek, but '''none''' of the major cities in Africa==
"[A]t one point there were articles on '''every''' episode of Star Trek, but '''none''' of the major cities in Africa." Stephen Harrison.
* Source: [https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/wikipedia-says-no-individual-has Wikipedia says no individual has a monopoly on truth]
* Verdict: False.
* Reason: Let's look at the Nostalgia Wiki - frozen on 20 December 2001. Starting with Star Trek there are articles for some of the series (not seasons), but I could find no episode articles, although there is an episode list for the original series, the beginnings of one for "ENT", and an article about [https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek/tribble tribbles].{{Break}}At this time the following African cities had articles:
*# Algiers
*# Cairo
*# Cape Town
*# Dar es Salaam
*# Khartoum
*# Luanda
*# Lusaka
*# Nairobi
*# Soweto
*# Tripoli
==See also==
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