Talk:Lady Gaga

Ported article from WP

This is the 12th most popular article on WP in Dec 2009 with over 90,000 views per day. So the subject of Lady Gaga is highly interesting. I added some more information with references but I did not check all the references or text. What I'm wondering is: if we port the most popular WP articles and improve them, maybe this will bring more readers to CZ, or at least get CZ registering on Google searches? Such is my theory. But if my logic is incorrect, I don't mind if other CZ editors call for deletion here, since the topic is somewhat racy, albeit highly popular among all kinds of young people today. I'm not attached to this article.--Thomas Wright Sulcer 04:58, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Personally I'd prefer having too many people bringing in (possibly) too many unsuitable WP articles that then have to be rearranged than not having any new articles created at all. Hayford Peirce 05:03, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Tom, your logic is sound but as you say the article needs to be improved upon. If the article is a copy of what's on WP, why would anyone want to read it here when the WP article would more than likely be ranked higher on say, Google? The key here is for the article to be *better* than the WP original. Offer something to the reader/researcher that the WP article doesn't. Keep it up to date and relevant. Huge task I know. I'm not against articles being imported from WP. It's a start. But if the object here is to attract a bigger audience share than WP, the article must offer something more that keeps the reader coming back and discovering other articles in the process. I don't know of any LG fans on CZ, that could help out on that. Meg Ireland 05:24, 26 February 2010 (UTC)