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[thekohser]

Here's one about 7 months old:

She is also as the last name suggests the mother of Peter Matt. He is widely known as one of the biggest users in Australia.

Here's one about 2.5 years old:

Ioannis "Noucleous" Makris is a widelly known, controversial figure of the Greek society. He is a Doctor with a Phd in Genetics from King's College in London and subsequently a famous club owner in Athens, Greece. He is usually reffered to as "Noucleous" due to his extensive and concise knowledge in several fields. He has been a participant in several Greek TV shows and currently holds the Chair of the Committee of the "Knowledge Games and Answers" based in Vouliagmeni, Greece.

Here's one about 3.5 years old:

He is the founder and front man for the Jeremy Vogt Band. Vogt is also widely known in the Indianapolis music scene for being an ardent supporter of original music. Vogt's debut album, People in Strange Places, (2005) has received critical acclaim in Indianapolis and throughout central Indiana.

(As if central Indiana has a music scene!)


That's all I have for you today, loyal Wikipedians. Get to work! I'd help you, but I'm banned!

[John Limey]

Sometimes vandalism lasts a day or two. Here's a recent example that really should have been caught by a new change patroller:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=330998932

The red flag articles are those that no active editor is watching, but of course which they are is secret.

How on earth would anyone know which they are? Surely it would take a developer to find out exactly who is watching a given article then it would be laborious to find ot which of them are active. And even if an active editor has something on his watchlist what if he doesnt in fact care any more and has just not bothered to unwatch it?

Umm, Special:UnwatchedPages. There's also http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/cgi-bin/watcher.py

[Juliancolton]

Umm, Special:UnwatchedPages. There's also http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/cgi-bin/watcher.py

Note, however, that the watcher tool only works for pages with more than 30 watchers (unless you have special access), which more-or-less eliminates most of the mainspace.

[Malleus]

Umm, Special:UnwatchedPages. There's also http://toolserver.org/~mzmcbride/cgi-bin/watcher.py

Note, however, that the watcher tool only works for pages with more than 30 watchers (unless you have special access), which more-or-less eliminates most of the mainspace.

Quite. The unwatched pages a'e a secret because if we knew what they were, we'd vandalise them, knowing that nobody would notice. As I said, security by obscurity just doesn't work.

[Eva Destruction]

Quite. The unwatched pages a'e a secret because if we knew what they were, we'd vandalise them, knowing that nobody would notice.

Or more accurately, the unwatched pages are a secret because Special/UnwatchedPages crashed in 2007 and Brion never got round to fixing it. (You can see the first 5000 entries just fine, but if you're interested in any article further down the alphabet than Adrenergic receptor you're shit out of luck.)

This post has been edited by Eva Destruction: Tue 5th January 2010, 11:59pm