On 12/5/05, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/5/05, Tim Starling
<t.starling(a)physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
I guess this would prohibit the creation of
articles that are created
casually, a few sentences about something the author cares about. But I
think the effect would be smaller for larger junk -- text copied from
homework essays or personal webpages for example. The contributors are
probably more motivated in that case.
-- Tim Starling
No so much. The idea is to limit the creation of articles no one cared
about. If an article is not an orphan then hopefully it means that at
least one other person though wikipedia should have the article.
--
geni
I think it'd be a good feature to have, though I don't think it'd
solve many of the problems this thread is talking about. There really
isn't any point in having an orphaned article. If you can't find
*somewhere* to create a link from (at least a list or something), then
why have an article in the first place? Making contributors more
motivated - that's *usually* a good thing, right?
One caveat, though. This would probably be best implemented only in
the article namespace. Orphaned user pages, for instance, make a lot
more sense.
Anthony