On 15/06/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
While you bring up athletes...
We currently have a -lot- of permastubs on athletes, especially those
who played professionally but may not have ever started for anyone. As a
rule, these articles tend to be very lightly watched (if at all), and I
would imagine vandalism to one could stay for quite some time.
What would anyone think of merging such things into, say, "List of
players on the 1999 San Francisco 49ers"? Obviously, we would still have
separate articles on Joe Montana and Jerry Rice, but we could then put
the third-stringers and such into a place where it would be more
watched, less prone to vandalism, and not presented as a full biography
of the person.
Thoughts?
What would be most useful to the reader looking up that person? It is
useful to know they haven't done anything else notable.
I submit that it greatly reduces usefulness for a name to redirect to
a 60kb list the reader then has to go searching through to find the
same information.
- d.
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Why does everyone always claim that readers would have to "sort
through"
lists? Did no one get the memo that redirects can now anchor to a
heading within the article? No one would have to "search through" a
large list if the redirects are set up properly, they get taken right to it.