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A random survey of 100 Wikipedia biographies, originally done November 30, 2005-February 7, 2006. I plan to update it once in a blue moon.

  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
1 Stephen J. Solarz 1900 No 3 Med 9 18,000 None Ex-US-Congressman
2 Khaosai Galaxy 1900 No 10 Med 9 275 None Thai boxer; sympathetic bio
3 Pierre Viret 1500 3 6* Med 9 844 None Swiss theologian
4 Samuel Sebastian Wesley 1800 2 3* Low 8 13,800 None English musician/composer
5 Stian Arnesen 2000 No 5* Low 8 529 None Norwegian musician
6 Mick Rogers 1900 2 4* Low 2 51 None British park warden. Feels like a memorial.
7 Tom Garrett 1800 2 6 Low 6 611 None Australian cricket player
8 Wesley Wyndam-Pryce N/A No 12 Low 29 21,400 None Fictional, gives note
9 Romeo Munoz Cachola 2000 No 4 Med 1 7 None Minor Hawaiian legislator
10 Justin Leonard 2000 No 3* Stub 29 227,000 None American golfer
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
11 Lord Percy Percy N/A No 7 Low 15 155 None Fictional, gives note
12 Epenisa Cakobau 2000 No 2 Low 5 556 None Fijian chief
13 Gersem 600 1 2* Stub 2 36 None Ancient African king
14 Lee Hyo-jung 2000 No 3* Low 11 9,910 None Korean ameuter badminton player
15 Cephas Washburn 1800 No 9 Med 8 163 None American missionary
16 Badal Roy 1900 No 3* Low 6 33,300 None American musician
17 Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown 1700 No 2 Low 19 304 None Historical British admiral
18 Baltasar Corrada del Río 1900 No 6* Med 11 330 None Puerto Rican politician
19 Billy Tauzin III 2000 No 2 Low 3 630 None Failed US candidate for an unspecified position. Listed on VfD.
20 Marie-Hélène Chisholm 2000 No 1 Stub 5 576 None Canadian ameuter athlete (judo)
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
21 Damien English 2000 No 4 Low 5 627 None Irish politican
22 Carl Charlier 1800 No 3* Low 13 202 None Swedish astronomer
23 Joseph Marion Hernandez 1800 6 3 Med 4 221 None American politican and general
24 Francis Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland 1900 No 4* Low 7 240 None Scottish peer
25 Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham 1900 No 3* Low 1 350 None Mother of an American politican
26 Ellis Wynne 1700 No 1* Stub 1 349 None Welsh author. Copyvio. Article is only one sentence long, and that one sentence is lifted straight from Britannica!
27 Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole 1900 No 6 Med 23 573 None Hawaiian prince, American politican
28 Gottfried Semper 1800 No 10 Low 32 24,900 None Half-finished bio of a German architect
29 Leah Purcell 2000 No 3 Med 8 20,400 None Australian actress
30 Jack Hutton ???? No 3 Low 2 ??? None Canadian pianist/bar owner. Missing critical information such as when he lived, what makes him notable.
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
31 Uros velickovic 2000 No 1* Stub 0 ??? None Serbian freelance journalist. Almost no English Google hits. Speedy-deleted as non-notable bio.
32 Mihai Dolgan 2000 No 1 Stub 2 208 None Moldovan singer and composer
33 Vladimir Drinfel'd 1900 No 4 Med 54 75 None Russian mathemetician. Google hits are for the last name "Drinfeld".
34 Ana Guevara 2000 No 3* Low 19 9,620 None Mexican athlete
35 James K. Dressel 1900 No 3 Low 0 55 None American politican
36 Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach 1800 No 3* Med 2 420 None German surgeon, written in a mix of past and present tense
37 Christian Holst 2000 No 2* Stub 2 300 None Danish/Faroese soccer player
38 Bobby Joe Morrow 1900 No 6* Med 110 663 None American Olympic athlete, three navboxes that dwarf the rest of the article
39 Marcelo Tinelli 1900 No 4 Med 5 45,000 None Argentine personality
40 Renata Scotto 1900 No 7 Good 9 28,000 None Italian opera singer
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
41 Giambattista Marini 1600 1 4* Med 20 54 None Italian poet
42 Prayer Reverie N/A No 4 Low 14 1050 None Fictional, does not make the fact obvious
43 Bas Rutten 1900 No 5 Med 10 65,600 None Dutch martial artist
44 John of Avila 1500 No 1* Stub 9 565 None Spanish mystic/saint
45 Andy Quach 2000 No 4* Med 0 4130 None Minor American politican
46 Willard Boyle 1900 No 5 Med 5 692 None Canadian physicist/inventor
47 Aleksey Mikhailovich Tcherkassky 1700 No 3 Med 1 38 None Russian aristocrat
48 Terry Porter 1900 No 7 Low 18 107,000 None American sports figure, written from a fan perspective
49 Edward Harris, 4th Earl of Malmesbury 1800 No 4* Stub 3 120 None British peer, many Google hits are for his successor, "James Edward Harris"
50 James Chapin 1900 No 2* Stub 2 ??? None American ornithologist, many Google hits for the artist by that name.
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
51 Vidar Sandbeck 1900 No 4* Med 1 338 None Norwegian singer/composer/writer, 22000+ non-English Google hits
52 John Miller (Governor) 1800 No 1 Med 1 ??? None Governor of North Dakota, many non-related Google hits
53 Gerd Gies 1900 No 1* Stub 1 188 None German politician
54 Buichi Terasawa 2000 No 2* Stub 3 865 None Japanese manga artist; many non-English Google hits, many Google hits for "Terasawa Buichi"
55 Béatrice de Planissoles 1200 1 6 Med 2 181 None Minor noble in the County of Foix
56 Phil Zimmermann 2000 No 2 Low 16 145,000 None Cryptography expert
57 Otto Kuhler 1900 No 4* Low 4 797 None American artist and designer
58 Jean Cruppi 1800 No 1* Stub 10 201 None French politician
59 Gwen Hotchkiss N/A 1 12 Low 21 11,800 None Fictional, gives note
60 Marcelo Tosatti 2000 No 2 Low 4 390,000 None Brazilian programmer
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
61 Boris Polevoy 1900 No 1 Stub 3 432 None Russian author
62 Helmut Kohl 1900 No 19 Good 149 1,840,000 None German politician
63 Ashur-uballit II 600 BC No 4 Low 7 341 None Assyrian king
64 Constance of Austria 1600 No 2 Low 10 593 None Austrian noblewoman
65 Jacob Pavlovitch Adler 1800 6 55 High 57 110 None Jewish actor
66 Richard Harrison Garver ???? No 1* Substub 0 0 None American inventor. Gives no information; listed on VfD
67 Andy Rourke 1900 No 4* Low 30 72,800 None English entertainer
68 James Lapum 1800 No 3* Low 2 3 None Canadian politician
69 Padrinho Sebastião 1900 No 3 Med 1 302 None Brazilian, reads like an epitaph, copyvio
70 James Hilton 1900 No 5 Med 46 269,000 None English novelist
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
71 Sandro Botticelli 1400 No 10 Med 123 345,000 None Italian artist; confused organization
72 John Henry Livingston 1800 No 2 Med 6 199 None American theologian
73 Tetsuya Iwanaga 2000 No 1 Stub 13 1870 None Japanese voice actor
74 Pat Jennings 1900 No 6 Med 34 37,900 None UK soccer player, rather confused writing
75 Joanne V. Creighton 1900 No 3* Stub 3 534 None American college president
76 Alan Abraham 1900 No 3* Low 9 181 None Canadian politician
77 Greg Raymer 2000 No 12* Low 52 209,000 None American poker player
78 Dara Ó Briain 2000 No 6 Low 15 56,500 None Irish entertainer
79 Eutropia 300 No 2 Low 5 ??? None Roman nobility, many irrelevant Google hits
80 Emeric of Hungary (saint) 1000 No 1 Low 14 9,240 None Catholic saint
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
81 Dan Tsalka 1900 2 7* Med 2 1230 None Israli writer
82 Věra Čáslavská 1900 No 7 Good 12 9410 None Czechoslovakian gymnast
83 Gol Acheron N/A No 4* Low 7 202 None Fictional, has note
84 Abelardo Diaz Alfaro 1900 No 6* Med 7 1120 None Puerto Rican author
85 Louis II, Count of Montpensier 1400 No 2* Stub 6 ??? None French noble, many unrelated Google hits
86 Yona Kosashvili 1900 No 1 Stub 5 798 None Israeli chess player
87 Ben Pollack 1900 No 8 Good 15 29,000 None American musician
88 Georges Valensi 1900 No 2 Low 4 1180 None French inventor
89 Jerome James 1900 No 7* Low 11 124,000 None American athlete; large trivia section
90 Susarion 600 BC 2 4 Med 1 251 None Greek poet. 1911 Britannica, and reads like it.
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments
91 Bob Denny 1900 No 3 Low 4 19,900 None American programmer
92 Edward Bellamy 1800 No 8 Good 39 122,000 None American author; some "further reading" links might be sources
93 Thomas Keating 1900 1 3 Low 5 75,300 None American religious figure
94 Friedrich Blass 1800 1 6 Low 9 786 None German scholar; copy-and-paste of 1911 Britannica
95 Evades N/A No 4 Low 7 ??? Spoiler Fictional, gives note. I'm sure the article would make more sense if I was familar with the television show involved. Google results not meaningful.
96 Denis Papin 1600 No 6 Low 13 117,000 None French inventor. Based on the Google results, is missing a lot.
97 Elizabeth Bentley 1900 7 15 Good 48 22,400 None Soviet spy. No lead paragraph.
98 Robert D. Cardona 1900 No 2 Low 5 539 None British director
99 Billy Flynn 2000 No 3* Low 1 ??? Wikify American entertainer. Google hits seem to be for someone else.
100 Shalini 2000 No 3* Low 4 ??? None Indian actress. Many apparently-unrelated Google hits.
  Article Century Sources Length Coverage Inlinks Googles Warning tags Comments

*Many one-sentence paragraphs

Coverage qualtiy
High 1
Good 6
Med 29
Low 45
Stub 19
sourcing
Articles with sources 13
Sources per article 2.8
profession
Fictional characters 6
Politicians and leaders 18
Aristocrats 7
Creative arts 16
Athletes 13
Actors 4
Musicians 8
Other performing arts 2
Scholars, scientists, inventors 11
Military figures 1
Saints 2
Other 12
Location
United States 30
Other N. America 6
South America 3
Western Europe 33
Eastern Europe and Russia 10
Middle East 3
Africa 1
Asia 5
Australia 1
Oceana 1


date
-600 2
-500 0
-400 0
-300 0
-200 0
-100 0
0 0
100 0
200 0
300 1
400 0
500 0
600 1
700 0
800 0
900 0
1000 1
1100 0
1200 1
1300 0
1400 2
1500 2
1600 3
1700 3
1800 15
1900 41
2000 22
N/A 6
Unknown 2

303 non-bio articles were encountered during the survey, including 12 albums, 4 songs, 6 bands, 6 movies, 3 TV show, 1 TV episode, 1 radio station, 1 comic book, 1 manga, 7 books, 4 fictional objects, 16 Rambot-created articles, 5 schools, 2 deleted Bethune, Saskatchewan North Bay Progressive, 2 copyvio Israeli whist The Elf Queen of Shannara, 1 redirected Acoustic feedback, 2 candidates for transwiki How to swim Shrivel