On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
> I couldn't find an obituary for Joel Renaldo, but I still had a lot of > fun researching him. Anyone who doesn't think he is notable should ask O. > Henry, if you can find him these days. I don't get the connection. Do you mean this O. Henry? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Henry Maybe if I read that article things will become clearer? And the Joel Renaldo article is the very definition of an orphan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Renaldo My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles is not a good thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand for the articles from people *other* than those creating the articles. In other words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in other Wikipedia articles. This prevents Wikipedia from disappearing up the fundament of its own obscurity. i.e. Create articles that will be found by people arriving from other articles, not obscure standalone articles that don't help fill in redlinks elsewhere on Wikipedia. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
