Talk:C1000

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Hey wiki-users and organizer!

I think this article doesn't match any quality standards of wikipedia. To be honest, I am just an occasional wiki-user and not even an English-native, but this article is grammatically and content wise worse than almost every article I've seen before. Because I'm not a dutch native and therefore no idea about the company history of dutch supermarkets, I am sorry about not contributing/improving the article myself. It would great if someone Dutch improved the article. Else I recommend to delete at least some sections of it. Really shortly the reasons for my discontent:

1.) The grammar (especially tenses) is not used correctly. 2.) Past events 2008/2009 are beeing descriped as ongoing events. 3.) It seems to me that the "de Boer"-taker-over story is barely related to C1000. The right place would be an article about the parent company Schuitema or the other "big players" involved.

Greets! TGiger

I agree the article seems to be translated from Dutch using Google Translate, I tried to make it read mildly better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Twar99 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

"Not known for quality"

@Gidonb:, In this edit you wrote "not known for quality", what do you mean by that? Are you saying that the Dutch Wikipedia in particular is of low quality? --Donald Trung (talk) 13:31, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Trung, absolutely. It ranks extremely low in quality. For example, our depth variable is 17 for nlwiki, 93 for dewiki, 243 for frwiki vs 1079 for enwiki. These are approximations of quality of course. Visiting pages on nlwiki you often find wrong information, practical jokes, promotional materials, and the like. gidonb (talk) 14:52, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

@Gidonb:, having contributed to the nlwiki in the past I must agree that most it is substandard compared to here, most articles are stubs and any article that is expanded beyond that of being a stub is viciously attacked by deletionists that love "trimming" (that's literally just the edit summary they give "trim" and people accept it), plus rarely, if ever, sources are used, my guess is that somewhere in its history people decided that no article should surpass "the size of paper encyclopedias of old" and the few times sources actually are used its "Spamhunters" remove everything for being "promotional links". Despite all of the aforementioned, the C1000 article is actually a rare article at the nlwiki for actually citing sources and being more than a couple of short sentences long. While the overall website is usually an inferior product best to be used only to look up translations and short descriptions, this article is an exception to this rule. I would argue the same for the Super de Boer and other supermarket articles.

In fact, the only topics the nlwiki seems to be good at are topics unique to the Benelux area such as this one. --Donald Trung (talk) 12:48, 21 September 2021 (UTC)