Andrew Gray wrote:
2009/2/7 Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com:
But it seems like there may naturally be a significant number of articles that ought to have only one incoming link, just based on the nature of topics and their relationships to each other and on the notion of "preferential attachment", which seems to describe the natural structure of knowledge.
The obvious examples would, I suppose, be daughter articles - "History of widgets" or "Widgets in popular culture" is probably only ever going to get a direct link from "Widgets"...
It is certainly somewhat discouraging for someone correctly applying summary style, one of our main pillars in the Manual, to be told they are "creating an orphan".
So I think this usage should not be adopted: let's not send out these mixed signals.
Charles