Fiction articles do not deserve to be exiled into someones userspace. Them being in the article namespace is not disruptive as stub articles are not banned. If I am wrong in my assessment then all stub articles should be moved to someones userspace. I wager even the attempt of applying such a standard to all articles would face a serious resistance. Then again I may be wrong. Consensus can determine that and anyone can initiate such a discussion. If someone wants to hide certain articles in their search results they may use the minus tag on Google. For example searching
"Topic" -anime -manga -movie -television
would eliminate most of popular culture in your search results. Of course smarter search words can be chosen depending on what you are looking for. Here I am merely giving a general example.
- White Cat
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:37 AM, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.comwrote:
I'm not thinking here of articles being rated to allow reader-side filtering by setting a value, but of AfD having a userspace to send grossly subpar articles to, rather then sending them to userspace. It depends how often userfication is successful in producing an improved and acceptable article. In many cases, bold recreation can work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_(online_game)
On the other hand, date context is still a remarkably hard skill to knock into people's heads:
"Threshold was, for three consecutive years, The MUD Journal's highest-rated role-playing game."
Quite why the article doesn't bother to say *which* three consecutive years these were, I don't know.
But getting back to the recreation aspect. Once you *see* an acceptable article or stub in place on the ground (after the required work has been done, and lots of work is often needed), then many objections melt away.
One pitfall, in your system and mine, is who decides when to move articles from the incubation namespace to the main namespace (and vice versa) and in your system who decides what the rating of a particular article should be to fit the reader-set filtering?
All hypothetical, as you say. At the moment, the best approach is rigorously sourced stubs that can slowly grow over time - slower than they would if it was just fans of the game or similar editors working on it, but of better quality for being held to a higher standard.
Carcharoth
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