[WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

[Ian Woollard]

On 27/06/2010, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk> wrote:
> On 27 June 2010 17:47, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...
>>
>> So should the various articles linked to from here be deleted?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought
>
> Economics was a bad example, perhaps :-)
>
> That said, this illustrates the point - we are quite capable of having
> an article on [[neoclassical economics]] and one on [[marxist
> economics]], but what we don't have is two co-equal articles on
> [[economics]], one from a Marxist perspective and one from a
> neoclassical perspective.

They're subarticles. The Wikipedia allows subarticles, and that's not
considered a fork. And even that can be abused.

> As I say, fuzzy line, especially with more philosophical concepts - it
> shows up the problems with simply saying "we don't like forks".

We don't like forks. That isn't the problem. The problem is the people
that DO like forks.

> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk

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-Ian Woollard