On 28 March 2011 20:15, Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
My other theory is that writing stand-alone articles
is not a good
thing in the long-run. Articles should be created if there is a demand
for the articles from people *other* than those creating the articles.
In other words, enough *independent* and reasonable mentions/links in
other Wikipedia articles.
This prevents Wikipedia from disappearing up the fundament of its own
obscurity. i.e. Create articles that will be found by people arriving
from other articles, not obscure standalone articles that don't help
fill in redlinks elsewhere on Wikipedia.
I think this risks damaging our long tail, which is actually a killer
feature of en:wp.
- d.