On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Charles Matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
I certainly think there should be one than one template addressing this issue, and preferably a "one or two links" template that only adds a category.
Don't need multiple templates necessarily. Just something like: {{#ifexpr:{{{links|0}}} > 0 | {{ambox|...| visible banner part |...}} [[Category:Orphaned articles]] | [[Category:Articles which aren't really orphaned but need more incoming links]] }}
Of course you'd have to run a bot to count whatlinkshere (&namespace=0) and change the code from {{orphan|date=July 2002}} to {{orphan|date=July 2002|links=3}} based on the number of the counting.
Some kind of magic word for {{NUMBEROFINBOUNDLINKS|0}} (last bit being the namespace) would make this immeasurably easier.
But even though you'll find disagreement about how many links are "enough" for a certain article. Five is right out. After a couple hundred you'll find people fighting the other way with their auto-delinking scripts/bots.
—C.W.