Can someone tell me why article transclusion is allowed? Or why it is necessary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2005 has the same problems as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_English_cricket_season_%2814-25_September%...
The issue here is that many editors are running into articles that look like unnecessary stubs which in fact are transclusions and are completely unaware of it. Why don't we just disable such transclusions? I do not believe main space (article) transclusions are necessary and they skew our article count. The number of cricket articles that I found were a total of 508 articles that happen to be transcluded. I did not know that, nor did the five other people who nominates similar articles for deletion.
I think it has basically been resolved that this kind of thing is in fact a Bad Thing and as such will not be repeated in any future such project. The WikiProject Cricket's reputation for intransigence is a direct consequence of repeated AfDs and a reluctance to delete hours of work, a feeling that anyone who has written articles will understand.
If people were more prepared to take the charitable view and ask people not to work in this way, they might have been more amenable than the strong-arm tactics that have generally been taken. Maybe that's all a little late in this dispute but it is worth recognising in the future.
Sam
On 11/10/05, Jason Y. Lee jylee@cs.ucr.edu wrote:
Can someone tell me why article transclusion is allowed? Or why it is necessary?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2005 has the same problems as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_English_cricket_season_%2814-25_September%...
The issue here is that many editors are running into articles that look like unnecessary stubs which in fact are transclusions and are completely unaware of it. Why don't we just disable such transclusions? I do not believe main space (article) transclusions are necessary and they skew our article count. The number of cricket articles that I found were a total of 508 articles that happen to be transcluded. I did not know that, nor did the five other people who nominates similar articles for deletion.
Jason Y. Lee AKA AllyUnion _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l