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Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/2/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste(a)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")
~ Sub veste quisque nudus est ~
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