On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


I think this risks damaging our long tail, which is actually a killer
feature of en:wp.


- d.

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