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Ray Saintonge wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 10/2/05, Daniel P. B. Smith dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
Users browsing the encyclopedia can set a default level of viewing on
arrival, but bottom level articles are, by default, not included.
Ideological pure-Wiki advocates might suggest that by putting these article on the bottom level you were preventing people from seeing them and improving them.
It's unclear what it means for bottom level articles to be "not included". Not included in search and in random page are obvious*, but there would almost certainly be a link there for anyone who typed in the exact term. We already have a link that says "View X deleted editshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Undelete/Brian_Torby?" For bottom level articles, you'd actually be able to view those edits by clicking on that link (the text of which would probably be rephrased).
Why not have these levels set by the long proposed article evaluation scheme, based on th numbers which that process gives. That carries no deletion implication, but it warns the user that if he views articles below a certain threshold he may just be viewing a lot of garbage.
Good idea.
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