I have started a little discussion over in [[talk:Complete list of encyclopedia topics]] about the "complete list of encyclopedia topics" article in Wikipedia. Specifically, it's my belief that this article and its subpages are hiding a heck of a lot of orphans from the LonelyPages finder, and I was kicking around a few ideas to possibly overcome this.

The consensus seems to be that this page was created to serve as a collection of ideas for new articles, and that the links to existing articles from this page are essentially useless; people aren't going to be looking here in order to find stuff. So, deleting the links to existing articles seems like the right approach. However, doing this manually would be a major pain; I wonder if it would be possible for someone to come up with a magic script to do something like that? Alternately, perhaps there is some way to specifically exclude "Complete list of encyclopedia topics" and its subpages from the link database that LonelyPages uses to find orphans; this would serve the same goal. Unfortunately, I know nothing about the guts of wikipedia or related scripting, so I can't offer any real help on this myself.

(URL for those whose email programs are not wiki-enabled: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Complete_list_of_encyclopedia_topics :)

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