> 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
Joel's Cafe could be merged into Bohemianism#American_bohemianism; however, Joel was a philosopher who wrote famously on evolution and bluenose neurosis: http://books.google.com/books?id=xV4DAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=%22Joel+Rinaldo%22&source=bl&ots=qdReuv31WD&sig=f0gOvLIHr2AsGVtUi4HCtKK2VeI&hl=en&ei=7yWOTbCqFoa5twfwvsWlDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=32&ved=0CIgBEOgBMB8#v=onepage&q=%22Joel%20Rinaldo%22&f=false Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
