I think the distinction is it would clearly be a subset of another article that you couldn't reach without realizing it was a subpage, not a full article - with an appropriate header like {{article-subpage}} leading anyone following a search hit to the full article. As it stands, these episode articles get hit as individual articles without being viewed necessarily as part of a larger structure. You could maybe solve some of the same problems with portals, I don't know.
On Dec 21, 2007 5:24 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 22, 2007 12:13 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/12/2007, Nathan Awrich nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a technical reason why 'breakout' articles can't be article subpages? In that way they wouldn't be articles in themselves, but subsets of other articles, and you could judge the notability of an article in whole without judging its individual components separately. Maybe a worry that a proliferation of article subpages would make things unmanageable?
Wikipedia used to have subpages,but went to a flat namespace and never looked back.
- d.
Indeed. What we didn't have in those days though, was transclusion. An interesting idea would perhaps be to transclude smaller grain portions of an agglomerated article into it. Not sure if that is a wise idea or not.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
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