[WikiEN-l] [[Geographic_references]]

[Ben McIlwain]

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Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 7/2/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste at dapyx.com> wrote:
>> What is this page? It's not an article, but it's in the mainspace.
>>
>> According to speedy deletion criteria, it would be speediable, but
>> it's linked by thousands of articles, so...
>>
>> Any idea what should we do with it?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_references
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the same one, but I saw something very similar
> to that recently. It appears to arise from a conflict between two
> ideas:
> 1) Link to some information to explain how to interpret the
> information in the infobox
> 2) Don't link to wikipedia: space, because that would be a self-reference.
> 
> IMHO, the second principle is a bad one. There seems nothing wrong to
> me with linking to some actual useful information *about the infobox*,
> rather than a contrived non-encyclopaedic article in the main article
> space.

Actually, there is a *huge* problem with that.  The articles in main
namespace are the encyclopedic content.  The Wikipedia: namespace is not
encyclopedic content, and thus, it isn't included on most mirrors.
Having thousands of articles linking to a page that mirrors don't even
include is a patently BAD idea.

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Ben McIlwain ("Cyde Weys")

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