On 12/5/05, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/05, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
I guess this would prohibit the creation of articles that are created casually, a few sentences about something the author cares about. But I think the effect would be smaller for larger junk -- text copied from homework essays or personal webpages for example. The contributors are probably more motivated in that case.
-- Tim Starling
No so much. The idea is to limit the creation of articles no one cared about. If an article is not an orphan then hopefully it means that at least one other person though wikipedia should have the article.
-- geni
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