Andrew Gray wrote:
> 2009/2/7 Sage Ross <[email protected]>:
>
>   
>> But it seems like there may naturally be a significant number of
>> articles that ought to have only one incoming link, just based on the
>> nature of topics and their relationships to each other and on the
>> notion of "preferential attachment", which seems to describe the
>> natural structure of knowledge.
>>     
>
> The obvious examples would, I suppose, be daughter articles - "History
> of widgets" or "Widgets in popular culture" is probably only ever
> going to get a direct link from "Widgets"...
>
>   
It is certainly somewhat discouraging for someone correctly applying 
summary style, one of our main pillars in the Manual, to be told they 
are "creating an orphan". 

So I think this usage should not be adopted: let's not send out these 
mixed signals.

Charles


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