On 28/03/2011, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com> 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. Long tail is good, I like long tails, but when the tail gets atom-thick? Some articles I've seen only get page hits from the random feature. There needs to be a cut-off and the word we're looking for is 'merge'. > - d. -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
