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I repeated the experiment described by User:Kildor at the current discussion on the utility and appropriateness of "drive-by tagging". I went to 200 articles by using the Random article feature. This took me about an hour and 45 minutes. (Whenever I landed on an article marked as a disambig, stub, list, or calendar year, I moved on to the next without counting it.) In almost every article I visited, it was clear within 1 second of looking at the article that it required copyediting, MoS conforming, proofreading, additional sourcing, POV removal, or some other type of cleanup. Not discussed here is the large number of stubs needlessly marked with tags such as "no sources cited". (Marking an article as a stub should be sufficient warning that the article has deficiencies.) Additionally I felt that, were I a drive-by-tagger, I could have found reasons to place tags at more than 95% of the articles I visited.

Articles with (non-subject-informative) tags at the top: 30

Articles with cleanup/multiple issues tags (does not count "no sources cited"/"needs additional citations" tags): 10

  1. Blade: The Series
  2. Los Angeles Dodgers **
  3. Albert Shanker Institute
  4. Marko Jovanović
  5. Trafalgar House (company)
  6. Wrestling at the 1912 Summer Olympics - Men's Greco-Roman middleweight
  7. American Councils for International Education
  8. Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever
  9. William Morrow (Australian physician)
  10. Ongole
  11. World Climate Report **
  12. Zlatan Muslimović
  13. League of Assassins
  14. Ferdinand Maximilian of Baden-Baden *
  15. George "Porky" Andrews **
  16. Relic of the tooth of the Buddha
  17. Governors of Roman Britain
  18. William Miller (British publisher)
  19. RTP África
  20. British baseball
  21. Wrights Hill Fortress
  22. Doublespeak *
  23. Flow table test
  24. Supply chain management software
  25. Star cluster *
  26. Nina Stemme *
  27. Bulevar (band)
  28. Turbo Prop Racing *
  29. Jeffersonville Ethics Commission
  30. Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (Denver, Colorado)
  31. Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
  32. Reassurance marker
  33. Deepwater arrowtooth eel
  34. Volunteer Air Observers Corps (Australia)
  35. Fellows Riverside Gardens
  36. The Ruins of Gorlan
  37. Mind game *
  38. Jack Marshall
  39. Fallon Bowman
  40. Gail Shaffer
  41. Conditum Paradoxum
  42. World Snooker Championship 2008
  43. Reinaldo Elias da Costa
  44. Jieh
  45. Monarchy of Antigua and Barbuda
  46. Ralph Pomeroy (poet)
  47. Conditional loop
  48. West Papua (Indonesian province)
  49. 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 6
  50. Saxony-Anhalt state election, 2002
  51. Effects unit *
  52. Mošćenice
  53. J. Spencer Lanthier
  54. Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's road race
  55. Guitar Slim
  56. Bill Miller Bar-B-Q Enterprises
  57. Army Medical School
  58. Bösendorfer
  59. SMC protein
  60. Phoenix Guard **
  61. El Rey (The Wedding Present album)
  62. Oliver Bulleid *
  63. Fox River (Little Wabash tributary)
  64. Biscayne Bay
  65. Lindley Murray
  66. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) Season 1
  67. Yosef Tunkel *
  68. William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
  69. Artemisia (genus)
  70. Clontarf Castle
  71. It's Alright (Echo & the Bunnymen song)
  72. Mary of Burgundy
  73. The Colossus (Goya)
  74. Robert Buchanan (footballer)
  75. Augustin Keller
  76. Pale Force **
  77. Short-term mission *
  78. Thomas Powell
  79. Hayes, Hillingdon
  80. SAGEM Crecerelle
  81. Tamas (philosophy) **
  82. Nacaduba kurava
  83. Dan Lalonde *
  84. Rudimentary Peni
  85. Laurel School District (Mississippi)
  86. Comprehensive income (accounting)
  87. Kavali
  88. Bill Gilligan
  89. Judith Auer
  90. James Cowgill
  91. Lombardo (family)
  92. Erekle II
  93. Conspiracy (demogroup)
  94. Public Analyst
  95. Skrappys
  96. Adelanto, California
  97. Dick (film)
  98. Lady Zhurong
  99. Earlington, Kentucky
  100. Mick Miller
  101. Fragaria yezoensis
  102. Price elasticity of supply
  103. Oakleigh Barracks *
  104. Daniel Martín
  105. Gabriel Heinze
  106. Avitaminosis *
  107. Moygashel
  108. Al Hall (musician)
  109. 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 10000 metres
  110. Walter Reed Army Medical Center
  111. Balerno
  112. Kiran Bedi
  113. Lust (Ambitious Lovers album)
  114. Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
  115. Blarney Stone
  116. Martin Snedden *
  117. 1992 Rugby League State of Origin series
  118. Alcan Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter
  119. Caseville Township, Michigan
  120. Particle radiation
  121. Lincoln Square Institute
  122. Olof Wallqvist
  123. Elwood Cooke
  124. Birmingham International railway station *
  125. Fiesta Fiasco
  126. Education Improvement Tax Cut Act
  127. Straight, Incorporated
  128. 1982 West African Nations Cup
  129. Te Voy A Perder
  130. Bad Taste
  131. Blue Stockings Society (England)
  132. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (has a split suggestion tag not counted in the total, as that sort of tag is somewhat informative about the article subject)
  133. Pablo Forlán
  134. Inđija
  135. Lexington Avenue/59th Street (New York City Subway)
  136. Cody Wallace
  137. Bella Venezia
  138. Right Here, Right Now (DVD)
  139. Channa gachua
  140. Dennis Hopper
  141. Rashid Zia
  142. Kassel Huskies
  143. Yotsunoha
  144. Alkyonides Gulf *
  145. Benjamin Szold
  146. Anna Anderson
  147. Baisingen
  148. Yuriy Polyakov
  149. Vehicular cycling **
  150. Pythium
  151. Implicit address *
  152. Interleukin 12
  153. Sri Lankan Ayurvedic tradition
  154. Restrepia muscifera
  155. We Are What We Do
  156. When You Believe
  157. War Rock
  158. Battle of Assietta
  159. Vetiver (band)
  160. Sun Caged
  161. Scythed Chariot
  162. Cotyledon *
  163. Jeff Redd
  164. Galenskaparna och After Shave
  165. Hassan Dehqani-Tafti
  166. Great Tellico
  167. North Liberty, Indiana
  168. Runnymede
  169. 2000 Spanish Grand Prix
  170. Portland Spy Ring
  171. Patrik Ringborg
  172. Jo Anderson
  173. Steve Goodman
  174. The Cloud of Unknowing
  175. Najafgarh
  176. Aarani, Tamil Nadu *
  177. Sharon Presley *
  178. Randeep Hooda
  179. Kenneth R. Bartlett
  180. Chin Check
  181. Matthew Nathan
  182. Pietro Deiro
  183. Michael J. Corbitt
  184. Mary Kelly (artist)
  185. Port Oneida Rural Historic District
  186. Lloyd Tavernier **
  187. Fireborn **
  188. Gary Goetzman
  189. Gospel of Truth
  190. 15th Cavalry Regiment (United States)
  191. Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy
  192. Detroit Junior Red Wings
  193. Mike Pressler
  194. Ashbel Smith
  195. OpenGate
  196. Monte Cook
  197. Hey (band)
  198. Fantastic Voyage
  199. MobileMe
  200. UCrime **


* non-subject-informative tag at the top
** cleanup or multiple issues tag or more than two separate tags