[WikiEN-l] Lists and redlinks and link maintenance

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Carcharoth<carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Only three of those 24 articles, in my opinion, have moved much beyond
> being a single line article or a few lines at most, even though
> impeccably referenced. You might say "go and help expand those
> articles" (and I might well do that). But there is a subtle difference
> between the motivation to write a new article and to expand an
> existing one. There absolutely *shouldn't* be that differerence, but
> human nature being what it is, that is a factor, I fear.

I've made a hundred or so stubs. A few have been expanded by others. A
very few have been expanded massively (particularly [[Calcot Manor]].

But I think your premise is wrong. Say I turn a redlink into a tiny
stub. You're assuming that some other editor was going to turn that
redlink into a big article, and now refrains from editing it because
it's not a redlink any more. I suggest that he picks a different
redlink instead. That is:

Your theory:
Before: 2 redlinks
After: 1 redlink, 1 tiny stub

You prefer:
After: 1 redlink, 1 big article

My theory:
Before: 2 redlinks
After: 1 tiny stub, 1 big article.

Steve