On 12/5/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
I think it'd be a good feature to have, though I don't think it'd solve many of the problems this thread is talking about. There really isn't any point in having an orphaned article. If you can't find *somewhere* to create a link from (at least a list or something), then why have an article in the first place? Making contributors more motivated - that's *usually* a good thing, right?
One caveat, though. This would probably be best implemented only in the article namespace. Orphaned user pages, for instance, make a lot more sense.
Anthony
Due to the way history works it would be quite hard to create a truely orphaned user page.
-- geni
Due to the way the mediawiki database is set up, it'd be extremely difficult to check whether or not there were links from the history, though. The only practical definition of orphaned I can think of would be "containing no links in the 'what links here' section".
Anthony