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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
