Fiction articles do not deserve to be exiled into someones userspace. Them being in the article namespace is not disruptive as stub articles are not banned. If I am wrong in my assessment then all stub articles should be moved to someones userspace. I wager even the attempt of applying such a standard to all articles would face a serious resistance. Then again I may be wrong. Consensus can determine that and anyone can initiate such a discussion. If someone wants to hide certain articles in their search results they may use the minus tag on Google. For example searching
"Topic" -anime -manga -movie -television would eliminate most of popular culture in your search results. Of course smarter search words can be chosen depending on what you are looking for. Here I am merely giving a general example. - White Cat On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Carcharoth <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm not thinking here of articles being rated to allow reader-side > filtering by setting a value, but of AfD having a userspace to send > grossly subpar articles to, rather then sending them to userspace. It > depends how often userfication is successful in producing an improved > and acceptable article. In many cases, bold recreation can work. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(online_game) > > On the other hand, date context is still a remarkably hard skill to > knock into people's heads: > > "Threshold was, for three consecutive years, The MUD Journal's > highest-rated role-playing game." > > Quite why the article doesn't bother to say *which* three consecutive > years these were, I don't know. > > But getting back to the recreation aspect. Once you *see* an > acceptable article or stub in place on the ground (after the required > work has been done, and lots of work is often needed), then many > objections melt away. > > One pitfall, in your system and mine, is who decides when to move > articles from the incubation namespace to the main namespace (and vice > versa) and in your system who decides what the rating of a particular > article should be to fit the reader-set filtering? > > All hypothetical, as you say. At the moment, the best approach is > rigorously sourced stubs that can slowly grow over time - slower than > they would if it was just fans of the game or similar editors working > on it, but of better quality for being held to a higher standard. > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
