On 10/30/07, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
"David Gerard" wrote
There's little low-hanging fruit left, as we've noted here before - but any WikiProject will have endless lists of red links just waiting for someone to do the legwork to research and write an article.
Bah. I still dispute this.
Someone with university-level research facilities should be able to do a much better job than from a mere Googling, in not much more time.
A proper library for writing a proper article, OK. But let's not propagate the fallacy that one can't write a good stub any more.
Charles
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There's plenty of low hanging fruit for writing good starts using just teh google. In fact, I wrote one yesterday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La Cuisinière and last friday: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fournier_de_Belleval and the friday before that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom%C3%A9o Beaudry and so on. It's really not very hard at all. The obiggest problem is probably the anti-redlink culture that's growing very strong, that keeps people uninformed on what needs writing.
More than anything else, the fact that writers are so strongly biased against redlinks these days is a huge reason new page creation has gone down.
WilyD