On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com wrote:
As long as the wikipedia article actually links the wikinews page and doesn't just redirect to a more general subject (or worse, show as blank).
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
should the en-wiki be encouraging the 'news' type items over to Wikinews, or embracing them as a core strength of the project....
I'd say news ought to be kept on Wikinews. Wikipedia reporting on current affairs tends to result in timeline articles and new bits keep getting added to the end. Major events tend to get enough attention that someone sooner or later refactors them into decent articles, but lesser (but still notable) events get left as "As of 17th April, ... . As of 18th April, ... . As of the afternoon of 18th April, ... . etc". Reporting the news on Wikinews and then writing a quality article after the fact would result in Wikinews getting the attention it deserves and Wikipedia getting good encyclopaedic articles.
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I would see nothing wrong, in that instance, with a soft-redirect page saying something to the effect of "Please see the news article for this event on Wikinews (insert link here)", if that really is the appropriate thing to redirect to. Other times, it may have to be mentioned on a disambiguation page or the like. And if we do wind up with an article on a "flash in the pan" event that turns out not to be appropriate for an encyclopedia article, we could always redirect it to the Wikinews archive in the same way. Benefits Wikinews (by making sure it gets eyeballs), benefits us (by making sure we -don't- get those types of articles and that news stays on the project designed to work with it).